Splling adn Punct,uation in Flypst

Hi Eric,
Rather a lot, actually, as well as having a different vocabulary, and officially being a bi-lingual nation. That’s why there are Canadian dictionaries, as well as Australian, South African (English, as well as Afrikaans) New Zealand etc. Canadian is a different English to American.

(And I know because I’m married to a Canadian. Refuelling or parking the car is a multi-lingual tangle as I’m an Aussie, and we live in England, so there’s up to three terms for each action, place or part!)

Yours, multi-lingually before leaving English,

Cheers

What words do Canadians say or spell differently to the US or UK?

Language selection in ieSpell

To change the language settings for ieSpell (and therefore the dictionary used), right-click on the background of a web page and select ‘ieSpell options’ from the context menu. Select the ‘language & dictionaries’ tab and then select the dictionary you’d like to use from those provided (I get the option of English (Canadian), English (U.S.) and English (U.K.)).

Andy

Let’s try a common difference between American and UK English:
colour (Aha! the program picks it up and suggests “color” so it’s using a US English database)
Nevertheless it seems to be useful gadget and I’ll keep it on my toolbar (or “tool bar” as it recommends).
Perhaps it can help me spell-check my Swedish too! I’ll poke around a bit more to see if there are “foreign” versions or add-ons.
(Sorry, thinking aloud there!)
Thank you to those of you who brought this to my attention.

By golly this ieSpell really does work!

MarK 😎

The problem being discussed seems to be rife these days. I continually notice bad spelling, punctuation and grammar in all manner of publications, even those that have apparently been proofread.

I also know however that my typing can be prone to errors (my fingers don’t seem to keep up these days), so I have taken steps to try and minimise the errors that creep in. For those using Internet Explorer, I can recommend IESpell (available from http://www.iespell.com) which adds a spell checker button to the tool bar near the top of the window. Its been designed specifically to check the contents of text input boxes on web pages, so perfect for a forum such as this!

Andy

Bah! Foiled.

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I don’t think it recognises “streight” though James.

But you do. 😀 I offer no excuses for my spelling. It’s taken years to get it like this. It used to be bad, now it’s creative!

IE-Spell

Rob,

I have seen this.

May I ask if you have down-loaded and used it personally?

I had wondered if it was just an open door to more junk mail / Spam etc.

There is no free lunch.

Mark

Collectible

dhfan,

It is in my trusty ‘Oxford Spelling Dictionary’, beside the keyboard in lieu of an available spell-check facility. Just words with no descriptives and fast.

It is also in my ‘Concise Oxford’ … wait for it … 1964 print.

“Report to the headmaster’s study Laddie.” 🙂

Mark

Ant started all this and seems to have legged it.
I wasn’t taught that phrase at school.

dhfan,
Thanks. As for my spelling, I’ll let Septic comment. (Go on, old chap…) Suffice it to say that mine is better than Shakesphere’s, though my talent be less. 😉

Mark12,
The OED is a useful tool, but no rulebook. Bear in mind I’ve met some of the Editors (working in Oxford can be -er- entertaining) and let’s say that absent minded professors are alive, still moving and in serious Nos in that town!

If anyone here wants some fun with English, go to Eric Partridge’s Dictionary of Slang & Unconventional English. Apart from lots of RAF, RFC, and colonial slang, there’s at least a page and a half on everyone’s favourite ‘f’ word, plus several hundred entries on the euphamisms for same.

Cheers

Ha! How long ago did collectible appear there (hoping desperately that it’s in the last few years)?

Five minute or the full half hour?

Collectible and collectable are both in the Oxford dictionary.

Mark

James, I was impressed by your last post. Your spelling, as you freely admit, can use some help at times. The only error I spotted was acceptible (should be acceptable) but that brings me on to something that really puzzles/irritates me.
Where the **** did “collectible” come from. It seems to be in universal use but the word is collectable.

Mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble, grumble, grumble, grumble, grumble, grumble.

O level English passed. So long ago I prefer not remember when, which is just as well as your memory fades with increasing age.

You are right to be annoyed Flood….I haven’t been getting FP on a regular basis lately, if I was I too would be getting annoyed. Spelling errors drive me nuts also, not on bulletin boards, because these are not paid for magazines….Because I watch shows from Colombia, I’ve become fascinated with that place….And one thing I’ve been noticing alot lately, is the fact that people can’t spell the word Colombia. Now this is in coffee places like Starbucks, where they are selling as I like to say “fine Colombian products” yet twice I’ve been in there lately and they can’t spell the name. Doesn’t anybody ever look at the damned coffee packages or cans?

John

I sincerely hope no English/Americans saw my editors “change” of a headline a few years back in the leading Danish aviation journal:

“Bones above Karup”.

(“Bone” is one very clever name for B-1 in my opinion)

Anyway he changed it to:

“Boners above …”

Sorry Der looks like I got the wrong end of the stick.

Originally posted by andrewman
Yeah I have some software that I use but often its that bad after I type thigns up it takes a few runs threw before I get thigns right.

And no Der I ain’t taking the **** you try posting on here all the time plus other forums plus writing your own website with my problems see how funny it all seems then.

Whoa there Andrewman. No offence meant! Apologies if taken!

Hi all,
In the good old days, there were (and there still are) a coyuple of books for ‘Confuseable words’. Worth investing in if you get puzzled regularly, or care.

Best I have is: ‘The Penguin Dictionary for Writers & Editors’ by none other than Bill Bryson. Because it’s a journos dict (from when Bill worked on the Times) it’s good for when you are in a hurry! It’s out of print now, but worth searching out.

Cheers