Spelling

[Guest]

I am an awful one at spelllingg.

I still try to spell in the fashion of the way I learnt to speak on the fringes of London a sort of London/Surrey dialect.

This all comes out as near English. But having an American spell check, with a leaning now to English with a near dormant London/Surrey becomes very annoying.

Words I type are sought out in American spelling which has made all of this very confusing.

Any chance, John, of having an English spell check ?

Laurie

There you go "learnt" came up as incorrect. In the US they say learned. Another is colour. There it goes again the dreaded red crackle line.

[Guest]

I wouldn't worry too much Laurie, at least you don't use ' text speak '!

[Gern]

Hi Laurie. You're not alone with this problem:

Ode to the spell checker

Eye have a spelling chequer, it came with my pea sea.

It plainly marques four my revue, miss steaks aye can knot sea.

Eye strike a quay and type a word, and weight for it too say,

weather eye am write or rung, it shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid, it nose bee four two long,

and eye can putt the error rite, its rare lee ever wrung.

Eye have run this poem threw it, eye yam sure your pleased two no.

Its letter perfect awl the weigh, my chequer tolled me sew!

Gern

[Ian M]

Hi Laurie, I would not worry to much. As long as the message comes across, I can't see a problem.

As far as spell checkers go, which browser do you use? I use Chrome and the spell checker on that can be changed to just about any other language you might need. Even British, American or Australian 'English'

Ian M

[Guest]

Wow Dave you really have a problem you need more than a spell checker.

I use Firefox Ian must have a look.

Laurie

Thought the spell check worked through the Forum software.

[Guest]

If you use Firefox, you can download the British English dictionary from the add-ons site and this will fix your "color" problems

Sadly when you write HTML, you have to use the badly spelled versions such as "center" and "color"

[spanner570]

I have three of the best spell checkers in the world.......

Two good 'real dictionaries' sat next to my key board....and the third? The wife!

Cheers,

Ron

[Guest]

sorry guys i think its funny when you spell a word and its wrong wouldnt be english otherwise lol

mobear

[Guest]

As everyone knows: there's no U in America, only me, me, me, me, me ........:1newwink:

[Gern]

Wow Dave you really have a problem you need more than a spell checker.

Hi Laurie. It's not me that has the spelling problem. Honest! I used to use this in my classrooms to try and 'wean' the students away from the idea that computers are all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful. There are about 40 mistakes in that little ode that a spell-checker won't find.

I also used a maths exercise to do the same thing. Try this one in the calculator on your computer:

Type in this line exactly:

2 + 2 ÷ 2 =

Now try it with the Scientific Calculator (You can find it by looking in the 'view' menu on your computer's calculator.)

It don't take an expert to see the problem but I know an accountant for a multi-million pound company who doesn't know!

Gern

Gern

[Guest]

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Those of us "of a certain age" learnt a mnemonic BOMDAS for this type of calculation, which tells you to do them in the order:_ Brackets, Of, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction. If it read "(2 + 2) ÷ 2" the answer would be 2.

My godson had been taught to do calculations by a tutor from the Open University, but her methods left the boy confused and in tears. 10 minutes with BOMDAS and he got 100%

He had to be taught the word "multiply," as well, since they had to use the word "times"; it appears that rabbits, when they get together, times, they no longer multiply. I believe that "divide" is something of redundant word, too.

[Guest]

Sorry Edgar, but I think you'll find it's BODMAS

Brackets first

Orders (square roots etc)

Division

Multiplication

Addition

Subtraction

That's how I was taught it, although we've gone off topic here!

Patrick

[colin m]

I wouldn't worry too much Laurie, at least you don't use ' text speak '!

So true. I can't stand all that GR8 and M8 stuff. Daughter No1 will subsitute the word 'Ma' instead of using 'My' in texts. Of course my being 44 means I'm just too old to understand why anyone would change a perfectly good two letter word for another incorrect two letter word ! Text, it's the devils' own language. I always use punctuation (normally incorrectly, but at least it's there somewhere) in my texts, which isn't difficult with a 'smart' phone.

[colin m]

Hi Laurie. It's not me that has the spelling problem. Honest! I used to use this in my classrooms to try and 'wean' the students away from the idea that computers are all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful. There are about 40 mistakes in that little ode that a spell-checker won't find.I also used a maths exercise to do the same thing. Try this one in the calculator on your computer:

Type in this line exactly:

2 + 2 ÷ 2 =

Now try it with the Scientific Calculator (You can find it by looking in the 'view' menu on your computer's calculator.)

It don't take an expert to see the problem but I know an accountant for a multi-million pound company who doesn't know!

Gern

Gern

Very interesting this Dave, So it seems that the scientific calculator is working backwards, 2/2 =1, 1+2 =3 But how, why ???

[Guest]

Very interesting this Dave, So it seems that the scientific calculator is working backwards, 2/2 =1, 1+2 =3 But how, why ???

Colin,

It's because the scientific calculator divides 2 by 2 = 1, then adds that to the remaining 2, leaving you with 3!

BODMAS!

Patrick