Spelling In My Posts

[Paul]

If my spelling looks wrong in some of my posts, it is not my spelling, it is yours (unless I use the wrong word eg. "Their" for "there", a mistake like that would be because I am an idiot). I have recently changed my browser's spell checker to a proper English one (would have done it ages ago, but only just worked out how). So if you see a post that looks wrong it is probably because you speak a foreign language that thinks it is English (eg. American).
 


 

[Simon Dog]

Spell checkers can introduce errors (their/there, weather/whether) that made the poster look like an idiot even if she was learned good in publik skool.

[Paul]

made the poster look like an idiot even if she was learned good in publik skool.

I was learned in a privat skool, which is one up from a publik skool, but without a spell checker I spell allful.

[Paul]

Using my laptop in hospital, which still thinks it is American. So for today and tomorrow, back to USA spellings (except where I catch it and correct it).

[cassandra]

If my spelling looks wrong in some of my posts, it is not my spelling, it is yours (unless I use the wrong word eg. "Their" for "there", a mistake like that would be because I am an idiot). I have recently changed my browser's spell checker to a proper English one (would have done it ages ago, but only just worked out how). So if you see a post that looks wrong it is probably because you speak a foreign language that thinks it is English (eg. American).
 


 

Dear Paul, I enjoy correcting spelling, even when it is obviously a deliberately stupid one.


   

[MooseMom]

I STILL tend to spell "favour" and "colour".  My laptop has not automatically corrected these into American English, but it HAS underscored them as "incorrect".

I have to be really, really careful with dates.  03-05-2018.  Is that May 3rd, or is it March 5th?

[Paul]

I have to be really, really careful with dates.  03-05-2018.  Is that May 3rd, or is it March 5th?

Yes, that date thing is a real pain when you use both British and American websites. Buying or signing up, and getting asked a date and you have to think which country they are in before typing. The worst are those who ask for your date of birth as a security question, get it wrong and you are locked out.

[Riki]

I have to be really, really careful with dates.  03-05-2018.  Is that May 3rd, or is it March 5th?

my brain automatically saw March 5, but that could be because we tend to use the British version of just about everything