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Spell-checker is very nice, but why can't forum admin add a custom dictionary?

It is a shame the spell-checker does not recognize Photoshop, Lightroom, DPP, ZoomBrowser, etc.
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Vladyslav Kosulin said:
Spell-checker is very nice, but why can't forum admin add a custom
dictionary?
It is a shame the spell-checker does not recognize Photoshop,
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The spell-checker is a feature of your browser, nothing to do with this site.

Perhaps you are using Firefox; it has custom dictionaries for different languages.
 
I thought this is the forum spell-checker. Sorry for my stupidity ;-)

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Vlad
 
It's not much good though for a photography forum, it doesn't even know how to spell colour in English.
Jules
Vladyslav Kosulin said:
Spell-checker is very nice, but why can't forum admin add a custom
dictionary?
It is a shame the spell-checker does not recognize Photoshop,
Lightroom, DPP, ZoomBrowser, etc.
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Vlad
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Why do you never see birds crash into each other?
 
Colour is British English, color is American one. You can download British, Canadian, and Australian English dictionaries from Firefox add-ons web site.
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Vlad
 
As I said...English. Americans speak English, except that they've corrupted it somewhat.
Jules
Vladyslav Kosulin said:
Colour is British English, color is American one. You can download
British, Canadian, and Australian English dictionaries from Firefox
add-ons web site.
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Vlad
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Why do you never see birds crash into each other?
 
. . . they seem to prefer "cancelled." I don't know any other English verb where so many people think that the addition of "led" on the end is necessary to make it past tense. English is easier than that.

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Michael Worley said:
. . . they seem to prefer "cancelled." I don't know any other
English verb where so many people think that the addition of "led" on
the end is necessary to make it past tense. English is easier than
that.
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Like label/labelled, fuel/fuelled, these words were commonly spelt with a double L in centuries past - to cancell something. The pronunciation has changed since, with the end syllable half swallowed - canc'l - and the current spelling mimics this, as distinct from words like "bell" where the sound is more open.

There are good and consistent phonetic reasons for the "lled" ending. Consonants often change (soften) when there is an E after them, and this modifies the preceding vowel sound too. You "pet" a dog, but "peted" looks wrong, it looks like the past tense of Pete. We write "petted" to make sure the "pet" part keeps the right sound. Doubling the consonant at the end of "cancel" when writing it in past tense, ensures the ending is pronounced hard (ell'd), rather than soft (eeld).

"Canceled" in the N American spelling, looks quite wrong to the UK reader. But I suppose all forms of English are full of irregularities, and we only notice other people's ones.

RP
 
Yes, because everyone else speaks and writes it in exactly the same way it was spoken and written two hundred and thirty one years ago. rolls eyes
JulesJ said:
Vladyslav Kosulin said:
Colour is British English, color is American one. You can download
British, Canadian, and Australian English dictionaries from Firefox
add-ons web site.
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Vlad
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Why do you never see birds crash into each other?
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"NT" means no text.

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richardplondon said:
Like label/labelled, fuel/fuelled, these words were commonly spelt
with a double L in centuries past - to cancell something. The
pronunciation has changed since, with the end syllable half swallowed
  • canc'l - and the current spelling mimics this, as distinct from
words like "bell" where the sound is more open.

There are good and consistent phonetic reasons for the "lled" ending.
Consonants often change (soften) when there is an E after them, and
this modifies the preceding vowel sound too. You "pet" a dog, but
"peted" looks wrong, it looks like the past tense of Pete. We write
"petted" to make sure the "pet" part keeps the right sound. Doubling
the consonant at the end of "cancel" when writing it in past tense,
ensures the ending is pronounced hard (ell'd), rather than soft
(eeld).
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Excellent, concise explanation Richard! You've nailed it well.
richardplondon said:
"Canceled" in the N American spelling, looks quite wrong to the UK
reader.
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It's funny, but when I read the American "canceled" my brain (tiny as it is!) always silently pronounces it as can-sealed.

Cheers :)
 
I read somewhere recently, that scientific spelling of element names was to be harmonised internationally - not sure if anything came of it.

UK scientists were to adopt "aluminum" instead of "aluminium". But US was to stop writing "sulfur" and use "sulphur" like us.

Maybe it was just an urban myth ;-)

RP
 
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde 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 be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
 
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