# If you KNOW you should spell check but can't be arsed...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-know-you-should-spell-check-but-cant-be-arsed/171117>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 25, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-know-you-should-spell-check-but-cant-be-arsed/171117 "2003-04-25T14:26:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![legion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@legion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legion)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-know-you-should-spell-check-but-cant-be-arsed/171117/1 "2003-04-25T14:26:32Z")

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…then this is for you.

[Browser spelling checker](http://www.iespell.com/)

It installs as an icon to your browsers tool-bar, has US/UK/Canadian (anyhoo instead of anyhow?) dictionaries and is donation-ware. I’ve been using it for a couple of days a it’s really neat.🙂

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**Author:** ![Popup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@Popup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Popup)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-know-you-should-spell-check-but-cant-be-arsed/171117/2 "2003-04-25T14:37:09Z")

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And the General Question is?

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**Author:** ![legion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@legion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legion)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-know-you-should-spell-check-but-cant-be-arsed/171117/3 "2003-04-25T15:10:45Z")

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Do you know you should spell check but can’t be arsed???

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-know-you-should-spell-check-but-cant-be-arsed/171117/4 "2003-04-25T16:48:33Z")

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Pardon my American-ness, but when did “arse” turn into a verb? =P

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-know-you-should-spell-check-but-cant-be-arsed/171117/5 "2003-04-25T17:48:14Z")

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The General Questions forum is for question with factual answers. I’ll close this thread and let you repost in MPSIMS, unless you have some financial or professional interest in promoting your find.

bibliophage  
moderator GQ