About spell checkers...
| "I here that their are view persons hear to day who cannot few very well butt I no its not there fault. Sum view people tend to sink that two much drinking might be the reason but dad is weigh to simple!" | ||
| Select the text above and switch on your spell checker. | ||
Did your spell checker warn you? | ||
I guess not! All the separate words are correct and can be found in any English dictionary. In the context of the sentences above, however, they really don't make any sense: you need at least a good grammar-checker or, better, a real person to find out that. the Search & Replace function you can find in Word and any other application working with text. Check only a few words which tend to be used a lot and, at the same time, used to be jumbled up regularly: | ||
| here, hear, he're | they're, their, there | it, it's |
| your, you're | where, were, we're | for, four |
| then, than | to, too and two | view, few |
Of course there are more homophones like the ones above in English, but, these are the ones worth to focus on.
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| Cross-application spell checking utility. Great, little program to use as an all around spell checker. Small utility to easily and quickly check and correct the spelling in any Windows application. Comes with good American-English spelling dictionary installed and some options to quickly connect to online webservices like dictionaries and thesauri. |
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Forget about all advertised spell- grammar- and style-checkers: they're expensive, complicated, slow and...don't even come close to the results of this very unobtrusive yet powerfull add-on for Firefox and Chrome (where they call it 'extension' by the way). ATD works quick, corrects errors and gives really valuable suggestions. This add on/extension is highly configurable and you can simply turn it on or off. Indispensible! |
