Mundane and pointless, but correctly spelled

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I write a lot of posts on the internet. I have, if I may say so myself, a fairly prodigious vocabulary. Unfortunately, my spelling skills are not quite as developed. So when I feel the need to use a long word like “floccinaucinihilipilification”, I open a Word document and type my best guess at the spelling. If there’s no squiggly red line, I’ve gotten it right; squiggles, I try again. I use the thesaurus when I’m not sure I’ve used the right word, or when I’m looking for a good synonym.

Right now, I’ve got about a week or two’s worth of five dollar words in one huge block paragraph. I think it’s kinda cool to look at:

So what do you do for spelling issues? Word, Google, dictionary, or just closing your eyes and praying to St. Gaudere that “martyr” really does have an E?

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I access the SDMB using Firefox, and it has a Word-style spelling checker built right in, so I have no need to switch over to another application.

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Same thing here. Firefox with built-in spell checker.

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Google Chrome, same thing.

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I don’t use any of them, because I never make any misteaks.

(You were unsure about how to spell “welder”?)

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Well… it could have been “wielder”. Or “wellder”. It’s not like I have a chance to use that word a lot in real life- I wasn’t even sure how it was pronounced.

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Safari on a Mac, inbuilt spellchecker with the OS.

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I don’t need a spellchecker. I’m using an error correcting modem.

But when it’s not available, I just use Google and see what it’s suggestions are if I miss.

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www.m-w.com for English, www.rae.es for Spanish.

I also own several paper dictionaries, but lugging around some 20kg worth of books when you live out of a suitcase doesn’t make economical sense - plus, if I ever did that, I better get stock in a chiropractic clinic!

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Pretty good speller as long as I check for typos before hitting ‘send.’ When a word looks like it’s spelled right, it is; if no obvious spelling looks right, I look it up on www.merriam-webster.com, which is also useful for other purposes.

Also, I don’t obsess about spelling everything exactly right when posting. I’m satisfied if the content is accurate, and that is not always the case either, as SDMB-ers are quick to point out.

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At home, I use Chrome, which has an in-line spellcheck. At work, I usually use some combination of Google and M-W.

ETA: Wow. I just looked over your word list, and your spelling really must blow if you had to look those up. :smiley:

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Besides the nifty spell checker in Firefox, I use a great little free program called wordweb. Once installed, you can click on any word and get a definition if you don’t know it.

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I want one of those (unless you’re just talking about old-fashioned boring parity and CRC-type error correction).

The problem is that Google isn’t authoritative (it’s happy to show misspellings), and that it doesn’t help you with things like it’s/its.

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Google is much more intuitive at guessing what you’re trying to spell, though. And it’s/its is a punctuation/grammar issue, not a spelling one.

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I just found it amusing that a post beginning with “I don’t need a spelling checker” contained such an error.

And you can always argue weather an error like the one in the 6th word of this sentence is a misspelling or a grammatical error (use of the wrong word). It’s/its is no different.