How's Your Spelling?

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      Good for her! It's a shame some of the contributors on here don't avail themselves of a spellchecker before posting :whistle: Or even read back what they've written to see whether it makes sense.....:scratch:
       
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        I don't mind how the members do their posting :) but I do get annoyed when local or government officials and businesses make errors. :rolleyespink:
         
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          Lynne Truss's book, Eats, Shoots and Leaves is a hoot. It should be available on NHS prescription :biggrin:
           
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            pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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            Ope yer nat tallkin abourt me tallking.
             
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              I do try...honestly....to check my posts, but they seem to change somehow when I press 'post reply'...:whistle::noidea:
               
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                Yes for me the Edit button is used 2 seconds after the Post button!
                 
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                  I get annoyed with the platform that GC is on because it's American and keeps changing my words to the American spelling - or sometimes says my words don't exist!!! :old:
                   
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                    Your posts are beautifully coherent, Upsy! :grphg:
                     
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                      It is? It does? Isn't there some way to select English English?:biggrin:
                       
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                        So many operating systems have the U.S. dictionary attached as their default spell checker. I kept changing my language to UK English but every time Windows updates, it resets back to U.S. I gave up and now just keep going back and adding the u to neighbour, etc...

                        I do have to edit a lot because even after reading a post through before replying, I quite often see a spelling error or whatever.

                        I get ticked when people don't seem to even try to use punctuation or capitals where needed or ramble on and don't make any sense!
                         
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                          Unbelievably...I do overwork that poor button too, but occasionally I like to give it a little holiday. I'm just too kind for words...even the wrong ones!!!!
                           
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                            Unfortunately it can't be changed. :sad:
                             
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                              But this is just a friendly informal forum so we accept that everyone is different.

                              We have a number of members that are dyslexic and we encourage everyone to come on here. :blue thumb:
                               
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                                I forgot to mention that I don't bother going back and editing typos. Those are obviously easy to interpret. And I never correct someone's spelling. Rude is rude and not necessary or nice in a friendly forum. ;)
                                 
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