discussion 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

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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

 

[Guest]

A scientific calculator need telling which computation to perform first (i.e. the use of brackets) it's designed that way because it's normally only used for advanced mathematics/formulae etc.

Anyway..... the spelling ... these days (as much as i hate to say this) it seems if it looks right then it'll do.

To quote a line or two from Chelmsford 123.

W ... A ... L ... L spells WELL in my book!

"What book's that Wolfsbane?"

"Speeling four Bigooners!!"

 

[Guest]

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

Orders (square roots etc)

Division

Multiplication

Addition

Subtraction

In 1948, 7-year-olds were not taught exotica like square roots (that came about 5 years later, when we were taught how to do them arithmetically, since pocket calculators were non-existent, and slide-rules were too inaccurate,) and "orders" were unheard of.

"Of" was reserved for fractional calculations, e.g. 3/4 OF 3/4 = 9/16, and was therefore given the same status as multiplication, hence their side-by-side standing in the mnemonic; we were taught that doing M, or D, first, made no difference (likewise A & S) so BOMDAS or BODMAS.

It's good to see that not all methods, from over 70 years ago, have been discarded, though.

 

[Guest]

Funny world how did we get form spelling to this bodmas thing. Do not worry I like this argument about maths.

Matter of interest & much of a surprise I even predate Edgar. Never even heard of bodmas. In my maths days there were no quotations as such you learnt by experience it was drummed in you did not need them.

Also we learnt parrot fashion all the tables up to twelve. And Edgar at 6 & 7 years old & each table has it's square root. We also had a teacher who taught adding, subtraction, division in a practical way by breaking down the problem. Thanks Mrs Maths.

Amazed when you have young assistants in shops trying to percentage a cost even the easiest of 10% which they find a mystery.

Loved maths except for trigonometry. Each wrong answer, most of mine, was awarded three wacks across the bum with a chemistry tripod. Calculus was great until along came Cricket which is far better form of maths

Laurie

 

[Guest]

Matter of interest & much of a surprise I even predate Edgar.

DO WHAT?????

I had you down as about the same age as me ... late forties ish

even more kudos on your modeling skills young man !!!

 

[Guest]

No no born November 1938. Just managed to scrape in before Hitler & his mob with a mass of Messerschmitts Heinkels then Flying bombs etc tried to snuff me out in my prime.

He failed good old Anderson Shelters.

Laurie