Thu Jul 12 00:12:36 EDT 2018

Dear MSWord:

A string of capital letters ending with a lower-case "s" probably should not be changed to all lower case after the initial capital. Particularly if the string of capitals is something you should have recognized, like "AA" as a battery cell size.

Maybe you're the one who's been encouraging people to use ( Read more... )

Sunday 10/22/2017 12:54 AM

Jeez, people, no one's going to find your web pages if you can't spell!how to login to SUN BLADE 6000 MODULAR SYSTEM's specific balde through console??
No one's going to be looking for a "balde" server; it's a "blade". (And in your title line ( Read more... )

Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 02:22:13 +0000"What if you have a bad wifi card."
Suggestions:wife
WiFi
Wi-Fi
waif

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Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 03:33:53 +0000 ( Read more... )

Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:30:01

HEADLINE
INTELLIGENTLY FUNNY APAPREL

Headline: intelligently funny apparel

Which they spelled "apaprel".

(And which Outlook auto-corrected in this email. ☹ Thanks, but not this time!)
And they didn't hyphenate the compound modifier.

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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 19:24:05 +0000

In a piece of email I was sending, Outlook suggested this "correction":IPAddress → IPad dress
I couldn't make any sense out of this recommendation until I realized it meant "iPad". (Since "iPad" is a proper noun, it seems to me that "IPad" is also misspelled. A misspelled spelling correction isn't the best help ( Read more... )

Sun Oct 5 11:44:56 EDT 2014

I was just reading some old postings of mine on a random tag, and I found 3 entries in a row with misspellings. I thought my proofreading was better than that. (I corrected them, of course.)

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Monday, 2014/Aug/25 6:26 PM
Après moi, le deluge!
Outlook's spell check corrects the accent in "apres", but then complains about "moi"...?

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Wed Jan 9 22:24:03 EST 2013

Why isn't "Ecuador" spelled with a "q"?
Why is there no "u" in "forty"?

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Sat Jun 2 09:25:14 EDT 2012


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