# My firefox dictionary doesn't recognise "where've" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 27, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097 "2010-11-27T20:20:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/21 "2010-12-01T05:29:58Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > It’s a machine. > > _Its_ name is Mr. Data. Bezerk button: He’s not an it! -ahem- While the other comments on my correction have been accurate, this one is not. Data has been declared as essentially sentient (cf “The Measure of a Man”,“The Offspring”), and has all the rights and privileges of such a being. He should thus be referred to by his preferred gender, which happens to be male. Even the sole dissenter in the original proclamation refers to him as such. While Mr. **kaylasdad99** is free to disregard the Federation proclamation, insisting that others are wrong for upholding it is incorrect at best. ---
**Author:** ![amarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@amarone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarone)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/22 "2010-12-01T10:26:39Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > His name is Mr\*\*.\*\* Data, not Mr Data. Or maybe he’s British (where “Mr” is correct). ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/23 "2010-12-01T12:12:13Z")
I bet if you’d typed “where of” it wouldn’t have complained. Grrr. If there’s one thing I hate more than apostrophes in plurals, it’s **of** instead of **'ve**. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/24 "2010-12-01T12:14:46Z")
> [@amarone](#): > > Or maybe he’s British (where “Mr” is correct). No, that was my point. It’s an American show. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/25 "2010-12-15T17:17:26Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Bezerk button: He’s not an it! > > -ahem- > > While the other comments on my correction have been accurate, this one is not. Data has been declared as essentially sentient (cf “The Measure of a Man”,“The Offspring”), and has all the rights and privileges of such a being. He should thus be referred to by his preferred gender, which happens to be male. Even the sole dissenter in the original proclamation refers to him as such. > > While Mr. **kaylasdad99** is free to disregard the Federation proclamation, insisting that others are wrong for upholding it is incorrect at best. I’m also free to not recognize _TNG_ as anything other than a placeholder for the eventual return of REAL _Star Trek_ to prime-time television. 😛 Since I always intended to be there in front of the TeeVee when REAL _Star Trek_ came back, the presence of a placeholder was completely unnecessary as far as I was concerned.\* I disrespectfully disagree with the mythical _TNG_-era Federation. Gender is a characteristic of biology, not of consciousness. Manufactured items can’t have it. \*Yes, it _did_ break my heart when DeForest Kelly went and spoiled that possibility by dying, but it didn’t have any effect on my non-recognition of any validity to other shows in the Roddenberry-verse. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/26 "2010-12-15T17:58:02Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > Mine doesn’t like the word “movie”. It gives me the angry red squiggle-underline. > > I think I got a highbrow version of Firefox that prefers to watch “films”. My Firefox wants to change “Quarter Pounder with Cheese” to “Royal with Cheese”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097.md?page=1)