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Techokami
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 Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:01 am Post subject: Spell check question |
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How do you spell "matinence"?
Because it sure isn't in the English dictionaries.
EDIT: Oddly enough, it finally worked. It wasn't picking up on a more common misspelling of it.
Maybe something with the way OpenOffice picks up on misspelled words? |
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jrkrideau
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| Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:32 am Post subject: Re: Spell check question |
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| Techokami wrote: | How do you spell "matinence"?
Because it sure isn't in the English dictionaries.
EDIT: Oddly enough, it finally worked. It wasn't picking up on a more common misspelling of it.
Maybe something with the way OpenOffice picks up on misspelled words? |
Seems like it, I've seen similar things and for some reason, the Canadian EN dictionary seems to not believe that there is a work 'okay' but will suggest that "okay's" might be a good replacement!
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9point9
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| Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:06 pm Post subject: Re: Spell check question |
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[quote="jthere is a work 'okay' but will suggest that "okay's" might be a good replacement![/quote]
The Wikipedia article on OK/okay is interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay
I would think that okay is not a proper word. I would think that it is an attempt to turn OK, an abbreviation of something that doesn't seem to have been remembered, into a real word. Some of the proposed options seem a bit far fetched.
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RonIA
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Kind of like having someone tell you, "Look in the dictionary to find out how that word is spelled." If I knew how it was spelled, I wouldn't have to look it up. If OO.o could just figure out what I meant to say...
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