#spelling
I like that spellcheck now doesn't give a flying rats ass through a doughnut about whether a word is in the dictionary or not. It is just a possible combination of letters for an English word (side note: it is a word in Tagalog!).
I moved away from computation linguistics in the mid 90s because I didn't like how hard it leaned into statistical analysis vs semantic and I am still / more mad now. Furious as a colorless green idea.
Oldie but Goodie Dept
Still fascinates.
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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe. That'll fcuk the splelchekcer!
#ISO just updated its "country codes" database to spell "The Bahamas" with a capital T. https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:BS
The change comes at request of country's govt, made to #UnitedNations (UN) in April 2025: https://unterm.un.org/unterm2/en/view/eaa3fead-a98e-4eb4-ae3b-5d0c7e167784
#TheBahamas #Bahamas #toponymy #the #geography #spelling #Caribbean @geography #placenames #names
”Failed”? This experimental #English #spelling from the 60s is instantly quite readable to any Finn:
' It used to baffle me – how could this person, who races through multiple books a week and can quote Shakespeare faultlessly, possibly think “me” is spelt with two Es? '
Dunno... maybe because that's how you pronounce it? :-P That's how _we_ do it here in #Finland anyway. WYSIWYG spelling FTW!
Synes du også det er svært at vide hvordan engelske ord skal staves (uden at gribe til autokorrektur), så se lige dette vilde eksperiment i undervisning, fra Storbritannien i 1960'erne. Som jeg aldrig havde hørt om.. tilsyneladende fordi det ret pludselig var blevet opgivet og aldrig ordentligt dokumenteret, undersøgt. #engelsk #stavning #spelling https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/06/1960s-schools-experiment-created-new-alphabet-thousands-children-unable-to-spell?CMP=share_btn_url
Zoom might need someone to correct their spelling. Check this error message:
{"status":false,"errorCode":6020,"errorMessage":"Please join meeting/webinar from corresponding IDP with corresponding authentication >>>>>>confoguration<<<<<<","result":null}
#dailyfail #zoom #spelling
Good morning. 
10 June 2025
Nobody nose—nobody knows! Fun with homophones or just a bit of confusion? Maybe a little of both. I'm not really going anywhere with this, just rambling. Ever find yourself typing the wrong word, like "here" instead of "hear," even though you know better? I do it all the time—especially when thinking fast. Proofreading definitely pays off, and autocorrect usually saves the day.
Funny how we've come to depend on things without even realizing it. Back in the '70s, autocorrect was just a dictionary—and maybe a little bottle of "white-out." Yes, way back when we were still dragging our knuckles on the ground.
"Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries eventually reflect popular choices." – David Crystal
"A pun is the lowest form of humor—unless you thought of it first." – Oscar Levan
Ik kan me doodergeren aan #taalfouten in de professionele context, zeker in deze tijden waarin er ingebouwde spellingscontroles, browserextensies als #LanguageTool (https://languagetool.org/nl), online woordenlijsten (https://woordenlijst.org) en #AI tools (Copilot, Perplexity ...) bestaan.
Dan zijn er zoveel hulpmiddelen, zie je nog dingen staan als "geef uw email adres op" of "beleid voorbereidend overleg". 
Geef een boost als je correcte spelling belangrijk vindt!
It's so exciting when I get to unwaprd a package I've been waiting for!
Proofreading: it matters!
It’s quite easy to mistakenly write lead (element Pb) instead of led, because they sound the same. I see this all the time. But it never seems to happen that people write read (past tense) instead of red, yet the two situations seem similar.
I guess it has to do with the relative common-ness of led and red, and the fact that we learn red much earlier than led.
Beloved Tor editor Teresa Nielsen Hayden once wrote about interviewing candidates for publishing jobs. If they could spell "accommodate," they might make good copy editors.
Decades ago, after fumbling it myself, I asked 30 other experts how to spell the word. All my fellow marketing writers plus managers, editors, tech writers, etc., in the corporate communications office where I worked. Only 1 person — a lowly (but beloved) typist — got it right.
Grammarly: we miss you! Did you take a writing break?
me: it's not you, it's my new IT department won't allow #Grammarly and Microsoft Editor sucks donkey balls; I guess having proper #spelling, grammar and #punctuation in our product #documentation isn't a priority here at InniTrobe.
How is pre-existing not in the Firefox (Linux?) dictionary, but pee-existing is? 
#spelling
Let's argue about whether it's "Whiskeygate" or Whiskygate" .
Go.
@allrite I noticed nearly all the typos in the first book were homophones, eg lightening > lightning, straight > strait, breaks > brakes, etc. Spellcheck is no good for those.
Just sent the author of two travel narrative books a list of typos to fix. Is that too presumptuous? They're great reads, but would be better if 'lightening' was correctly spelled 'lightning' etc.
I disagree with @gruber here. I think the internet is more like the sky than the Earth. The Earth is a singular thing, but the sky is defined by all of the elements in it. In that sense the internet is more like the sky than the Earth and therefore does not justify a capital I.
Thoughts:
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/11/new-yorker-style-modernizations