Using Google As A Spell Checker
Using Google as a kind of a spell checker is great–if you know how to spell the word. Even the automated spell checkers in my browser don’t exactly catch some mistakes. So what did I do? I asked Google.
I first typed in the word exhorborent. It suggested the word exhorborant. When I typed in define:exhorborant, of course, it came up with no definition. That means that not only can I not spell the word right, a bunch of other people on the Internet who didn’t bother to look it up also spelled it wrong. Great, thanks for clogging up the search engines, folks!
The correct spelling of the word? Exorbitant. How did I find the correct spelling? This dictionary, pictured here. A dictionary I could browse quickly and find the word I was looking for.
Google, and just about every other spell checker I had, failed this test. Good thing I have a dictionary around and am not afraid to use it.
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Comment by http://www.goebel.net
Next time you better don’t use Google but Merriam-Webster online (http://www.m-w.com/). That’s faster. Even better is a Mozilla plugin: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=Webster&sherlock=yes&opensearch=yes&submitform=Search
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Comment by jollyroger
HOW DO YOU DO… LANGUAGE
I gave my spell checker the authority of a judge, feeling I have to argue my case at every fragment and semi colon bad usage. But personally my spell checker�s seriously disabled. For one, it�s an American and thus frequently masturbates over the letter z. Two, it loves to connect and split words when I like them the way they are. After I disagree with it�s correction and we move on, it not only highlights that expression not been in it�s Delaware Dictionary It goes back to it believing that I�ve collected my senses realised my misguided misgivings offering me the same standardization. This twat�s seriously deluded. It�s got no qualifications and it doesn�t even speak!
And while we�re here. Why do we hang onto odd things like Times New Roman. Romans didn�t even have Times New Roman cos it was invented in 1933. So why do we have to keep using it, it�s cottage cheese.
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