Anyone else here ever use a DU posting window JUST for the spell-checker?

[Ian David]

I have to admit I do that.

I don't have MS-Word installed on this computer, and sometimes I click the "post" button just to use DU's spell-checker.

The most embarrassing part?

Sometimes I find I actually needed it.

Am I alone in this?

[KitchenWitch]

1. yup, all alone LOL

[tk2kewl]

2. Of course. It's a lot faster than opening Word.

;)

[RevolutionaryActs]

3. Only for posts, but I do use it on pretty much every post, screw that damn

proofreading stuff! :P

[McKenzie]

4. no because it's £$£%$&^ American English!

humour, colour, neighbour etc NOT humor, color, neighbor ...rant rave rave rant

[FuzzySlippers]

6. We're just more economical.

No reason to overwork that poor u.

[McKenzie]

7. why not just admit

that you bastardised our language? Superior smirk.

Gotta go to the shop right now. brb for more fun and banter soon.

[FuzzySlippers]

8. Bastardized your language?

Why can't you just admit we perfected it?

Moreover, what's up with the overuse of s, e.g. bastardise, criticise, empathise etc.? It's a zee sound for Gawd's sake! Use a freakin' z!

[McKenzie]

9. I have just returned from the shop to find

incorrect spelling.

This might help you to understand correct English useage Ms FS. Useage as in shmoozlage. So there!

"My Lord, I do here, in the name of all the learned and polite persons of the nation, complain to Your Lordship as First Minister, that our Language is extremely imperfect; that its daily improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily corruptions; that the pretenders so polish and refine it have chiefly multiplied abuses and absurdities: and that in many instances it offends against every part of grammar." —SWIFT

[FuzzySlippers]

15. I sure hope you picked up an American dictionary

at the shop so you can start spelling properly.

[IntravenousDemilo]

10. A 'zee' sound?

Surely you mean a 'zed' sound.

[FuzzySlippers]

12. I see you're in Toronto, Mr. Smartypants.

All of you Commonwealth types are ganging up on me.

[NYC]

5. That's a clever idea.

I'll use it if I need it.

(I don't even use spell check for my DU posts. Oh, well.)

[Mr.Green93]

11. Try ieSpell

www.iespell.com/

[Ian David]

13. That looks great!

I'm going to check it out.

Thanks!

[Mr.Green93]

14. Careful

it's addictive.