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... that you can stare at a document for quite some time, but only spot the poor spelling after you've posted it somewhere for people to read.
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Dyslexia
That is why I have problems here and elsewhere. It was a bless when I got word-programmes that did the spelling control. Then I knew that at least most of my errors could be corrected. But it is so typical that a dyslectic person cannot see his/her own mistakes as the content is known to the writer and that the erors are not seen at all. Just accept it or try to make some personal ways for common words that are difficult to spell. This is of course different from language to language.
I doo hope that my small texts here are accepted even if they from time to time contain errors that are invisible to me.
Best wishes for the coming year
Ginnie
or as I sometimes name myself "Miss Pelling"
GinnieG
Problem with spell-checkers
The problem with relying on spell-checkers is that you may have mis-spelt (or should that be mis-spelled?) a word as another valid word, or that the suggestions that the checker may offer are valid but wrong. (And that's without getting into the whole English/American thing.)
Even though I consider myself to be a good speller, I always use the checker to start with to catch typos, but always follow it up with a close scrutiny to ensure that the words I've used are the correct ones - or at least, what I think are the correct ones.
Still get one or two slip through, though. Sometimes I don't find them until weeks afterwards.
Penny
Spelling Chequer
It's an oldie but a goodie - scribbled by Jerrold H. Zar way back in 1992...
Eye have a spelling chequer,
It came with my Pea Sea.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss Steaks I can knot sea.
Eye strike the quays and type a whirred
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am write oar wrong
It tells me straight a weigh.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your shore real glad two no.
Its vary polished in its weigh.
My chequer tolled me sew.
A chequer is a bless thing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right all stiles of righting,
And aides me when eye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The chequer pours o'er every word
Two cheque sum spelling rule.
(It's true - neither MS Word, Openoffice.org Writer or Firefox see any spelling errors in that poem...)
--Ben
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
You need separation
Sometimes when you write something, and then check it, you're too close to your work. Putting it aside for a couple of days helps.
What does this sign say?
Here's a tip for when you need to check something, but can't afford to give yourself separation:
Try reading the text backwards!
The way, you'll read the words out of context.
When you read the sign above backwards, what does it say? Is this the same as you thought earlier?
Proofing Suggestions
Bike Resources
Spelling Unimportant for Comprehension
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deson't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteetr by isltef but the wrod as a wlohe.
Hehe its true so long as the 1st and last letters are correct and its in a sentance it can still be understood
Bailey's Angel
The Godmother :p
Yuo Splel lkie me!
Wahts worng whit the proof raeding hree?
Lokos fnie to me.
Jhon in Wuawatsoa
John in Wauwatosa
Bzzzzzt!
I blogged about this awhile back, here is a link to a news story debunking this urban myth.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,511177,00.html
I think this comes up every time somebody starts talking about spelling. :-(
k
"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way." College Girl - poetheather
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Hey Babe...........
............it gives the anal retentive something to do with their lives! :D
Mea the Magnificent
one more
A well-known corollary to Murphy's Law: There Is Always One More Typo!
Just like ...
... no bells ring when you find the last bug in a piece of software as I learned, often to my cost, many years ago when merely omitting a simple # could have totally unpredictable results.
Robi