Spell Check - a remedy

I guess it makes a difference if you are trying to spell words in English or American also.

My system tries to tell me I'm spelling "neighbour" and "flavour" wrong.

JaxDad wrote:
I guess it makes a difference if you are trying to spell words in English or American also.

My system tries to tell me I'm spelling "neighbour" and "flavour" wrong.

It's that "mercurial" thing, eh?

UK/US Spelling. "CANADIANS being particularly mercurial"..;)

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AnEv942 wrote:
IeSpell users:
Is it still working for you on this forum? I have 3 different cpus with different operating systems, all use IEexplorer but different versions, also 2 differnt versions of iespell. Recently all/any, when using iespell specificaly only on this forum- The corrected word is inserted, deleting space before previous word and leaving last letter of mispelled word.

just FYI this is ieSpell corrected;

"Is it still working for you on this forum? I have 3 differentCPUss with differentoperatingg systems, all useIE explorerr but different versions.Recentlyy none when usingieSpelll work correctly butspecificallyl on the this forum. The corrected word is inserted"...

Been using iespell for couple of years-just odd-but unsure where the fault is.

IESpell works great, for me. No missed spaces or letters left behind.

Hmm downloaded Speckie it works-though ieSpell simpler, like its format. Speckie highlights the misspelled word(s), so when I run ieSpell at least I can catch when it runs words together.

PuzzlinieSpellll seemed to bworkingin checking as I go- when I added this second paragraph started jacking. Now its deleting prior space and last letter of previous word-leaving last 2 letters of replaced word-odd...thought I had it-need a testing area so i can just try different combinations-see whats triggering this before I give up on it-
Now thats peculiar-I misspelled combination above- highlighted just that sentence and ieSpell worked. And again on this sentence.



tryparagraphsphss

above was "trying paragraphss" 4 hard returns=4 missing characters, 4 leftover...
WOW. You cant see but Ive been playing and Its the hard return? If I delete all hard returns between '...sentence.' paragraph and 'trying paragraphs' ie works. For every hard return, thats how many letters are deleted when ie inserts corrected word. Only thing that comes to mind is this forum uses BBC code-verses other forums I frequent that use something else. Going to go visit some other BBC code base sites and see if repeatable. IeSpell usually works for me-it was only this forum thats become issue...I can check this entire paragraph and ieSpell works-if I add a return to split into paragraphs it starts jacking. So work around is either checking a paragraph at a time, ensuring no hard return are in selection or no paragraphs.

Could be that ieSpell seemed to work previously for me because usually don't add paragraphs-but more likely that I just gave up XP. As ieSpell hasn't been updated since 2010 and most software has spell checks now not likely to be addressed.

Even the best spell checkers don't help if you use the wrong word and spell it correctly. They also often don't catch it when I inadvertently use my native British spelling of some words.

The number of times I see web "sights" is amazing. I will sometimes post a message that says "This web-sight is a site for soar ayes".

Cna yuo raed tihs? if yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid, too.

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulatcly uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Azanmig hhu? Yaeh, and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

As said spell check won't help when it's the wrong word. A few of of my favourites:

- quite when quiet is meant
- people asking for advise... should be advice. You ask for advice whereas you advise someone.
- breaks instead of brakes

and yes I also hate it when the spell checker flags Canadian spelling of words as wrong... such as favourites above.

frankdamp wrote:
The number of times I see web "sights" is amazing. I will sometimes post a message that says "This web-sight is a site for soar ayes".

Too bad you didn't cite a couple of examples.

:B

frankdamp wrote:
Even the best spell checkers don't help if you use the wrong word and spell it correctly. They also often don't catch it when I inadvertently use my native British spelling of some words..

I do not have a problem reading British spelling.. I do understand English even if we here in America do not speak it often (I do not speak it, at least not well).

As for rumors of the speil clinker not working on any given web page or service.. FIREFOX has one built in.

BTW, if you are using Chrome you can set the language used for spell checking in the advanced settings. Just saying... ;)