You sense you are being betrayed by spellcheck. Where do you turn?

Betrayed, how? I’ve been noticing a lot lately that I’ll have one single letter wrong in a decent length word, and spellcheck doesn’t even come close. Not even ballpark. It seems like a change to me.

I’m guessing that spellcheck is administered by your browser? I use Firefox.

Witch doctors…they put a spell on you!

You can edit your custom dictionary (desktop Chrome) in settings -> advanced -> language and input settings -> custom spelling dictionary.

@ibstubro

I use The Fox That Is Firey too, love it.

One needs to be careful with the form of one’s delivery as the pedants believe they can use their substitute for normal human intimacy to render a strong or snidely delivered point nullified.

@SecondHandStoke then I believe the fault may be with FF. You have IE on your computer and you can easily open both and test it next time you get a troublesome word?

Of you could open Word and paste the offending word there and see Microsoft’s take, perhaps?

Dictionary?

chortle @LornaIove. Is there one that’s not been recycled?

:-)

I Google word meanings and spellings constantly. I stopped trusting spellcheck a long, long time ago.

I do too, @Pachyderm_In_The_Room.

My latest result, earlier today?

“pork rind: the rind on pork meat.”

Now, why didn’t I think of that??

The Oxford dictionary.
Merriam Webster can suck my tits.

The only time that spellcheck seems to “betray” me is when it doesn’t include an uncommon word that I’m using, or a novel or highly adjectivized (like that) form. And in that case I right-click the word in the browser and check it on dictionary.com or some other source that I like (and which is available) and/or right-click again and “add to dictionary”, which puts it in the dictionary that the browser is using. (At least until I change computers again.)

Merriam Webster has some really great games, plus it pronounces the words for you. Nearly all my vocabulary came from reading, so I talk a lot dumber than I type. :-)

I pick up a paper dictionary, and look there. Yeah, it seems old fashioned, but there is enough room on my desk for a small dictionary.

The OED, usually.

@SecondHandStoke Didn’t the Fox tell you that it’s fiery, not firey? :P

Occasionally spellcheck insists, no matter how hard I try to override it, on its version of a word. It is usually not a spelling issue but a word choice. In that case, I have to find a synonym.

You all do know you can ignore spell check, right? Just Google the word and if it’s spelled wrong, Google will suggest the right spelling.

@flip86 How many pages is this Goggle thing? Will the Liberry have one?

And in the Bureau of Extra Redundancies Dept., what are these “goggle glasses” I keep hearing about?

—@CWOTUS here we have the “Bureau of extra redundancies Department.”

BOERD

Google always corrects my spelling way better than the iPhone. If I can’t seem to get it right I just google the word and the correct spelling pops up.

I have never used spellcheck, mind you my spelling is pretty good so maybe that’s why I feel comfortable not using it, preferring to trust my own judgement, mind you I reread everything I write and check as I go along.

English is my second language, so I rely more on Google for spell check and grammar check. Google gets the correct word I’m trying to spell about 99.9% of the time. It usually does a very good job of correcting miss spelled words, but it is up to us to use the word in it’s correct context. If spell check betrays us,definitely the next best and reliable option would be our old dear “Oxford Dictionary”.

I like spellcheck for the way it flags my typos (generally); I don’t need it often. But when I do, I like it a lot, so I keep it turned on by default unless I’m writing something that’s going to have a lot of jargon or dialect that will all be flagged as misspellings.

“Thou shalt spell the word Pheonix P-H-E-O-N-I-X not P-H-O-E-N-I-X, regardless of what the Oxford English Dictionary tells you. ”

”Thou Shalt Always Kill” -Dan La Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip.

@SecondHandStoke , I’ve been guilty. I have also been guilty of the affect effect error.

We should all cut ourselves some slack.

English isn’t the world’s most easy language to master.

I have a time with bear bare.

Google.

I just saw this note come up on my “activity for you” link and read it quickly as “betrayed by a sidekick”, and felt a real Oof! Pow! hollow feeling in the pit of my stomach.

So I guess what I’m trying to say is that I’d check whether I was really being betrayed by spellcheck or maybe batteried by a sidekick, or whatever. Those sidekicks, man, you just can’t trust ‘em outside of the comics and old Westerns, y’know?

Eye Halve a Spelling Chequer

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a quay and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its really ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it’s weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
(Sauce unknown)

Here’s another for you, @bea2345:

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