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Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spelin'
A few years ago, Darren sent me something about the EU forcing a
standardisation of English spellings. After a few years of change, the
initial English text looked (to a non-German speaker) exactly like
written German but readable as English. Robert's example
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Grrr. Who made the English language so difficult???
Because it is so difficult and some of us take the trouble to learn it
correctly we don't mangle it like our cousins across the pond -
especially their leader.
Like this suggestion (from across the pond?):
A
written Dutch.
Do you still have that one Darren?
--
Dilwyn Jones
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From: Robert Newson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spelin'
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Grrr. Who made the English language so
at gunpoint by two men, each carrying sawn
off shitguns
Darren.
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From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 22 June 2005 22:07
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spelin'
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 at 20:21:57, gwicks wrote:
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I
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 at 09:22:54, Darren Branagh wrote:
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That reminds me of a story in RTE TV here in Ireland many years ago.
Similar Situation, but it was the bloke who wrote up the autocue for the
newsreaders who was a little disgruntled. In one news story about a post
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren
Branagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
That reminds me of a story in RTE TV here in Ireland many years ago.
Similar Situation, but it was the bloke who wrote up the autocue for the
newsreaders who was a little disgruntled. In one news story about a post
office
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tony Firshman
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I must find a list of common American-English spellings and update. I
have the American version.
This is because, in their infinite wisdom, M$ allow you to set the
country settings four times during installation. Most people
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 at 00:40:56, Roy wood wrote:
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Darren
Branagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
That reminds me of a story in RTE TV here in Ireland many years ago.
Similar Situation, but it was the bloke who wrote up the autocue for the
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 at 23:21:54, Roy wood wrote:
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.tesco.net, Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Yes, you're right about rong, I missed that.
Somewhere along the line, mine must have learned SHURE. I'll have to
work out how to remove it
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 at 00:06:05, David Tubbs wrote:
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At 23:41 21/06/2005 +0100, you wrote:
Yes Dilwyn,
It would be useful to know how to delete words from the Pee Sea Dicshunary
witch ar noo longer reqwired. Let me know of your progress.
John Gilpin
Dicslectic Treshur
Yes, you're right about rong, I missed that.
Somewhere along the line, mine must have learned SHURE. I'll have to
work out how to remove it now!
It is a microphone.
Ah, of course, as I used to work in broadcasting that's where it must have come
from.
Just out of fun I'll type the above as
Roy!
Do you mean our beloved Bertie?
I'm shocked :-)
Darren.
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From: Roy wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 June 2005 23:26
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spelin'
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones
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SNIP
Grrr. Who
Grrr. Who made the English language so difficult???
Because it is so difficult and some of us take the trouble to learn it
correctly we don't mangle it like our cousins across the pond -
especially their leader.
Natural evolution of language is probably listed in a dictionary somewhere
From: David Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It would be useful to know how to delete words from the Pee Sea Dicshunary
witch ar noo longer reqwired. Let me know of your progress.
John Gilpin
Dicslectic Treshur er! (my Spell Checker has just offered Thrasher)
Put it write, just edit your custom
Geoff Wicks has British English and American English QTYP dictionaries, it
might be possible to run a comparison between the two for alternative spellings
perhaps?
Dilwyn Jones
Tony Firshman wrote:
Brilliant, David. I knew it was possible but thought I had to get at
custom.dic directly.
Darren Branagh wrote:
Roy!
Do you mean our beloved Bertie?
I'm shocked :-)
Darren.
Oh oh, here we go, Bertie Bashing...
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At 09:08 22/06/2005 +0100, you wrote:
TOOLSOptionsSpellGramDicksEdit
'modify' in XP
Under XP home -
Probably Word version, am using Off 2k
Brilliant, David. I knew it was possible but thought I had to get at
custom.dic directly.
I must find a list of common American-English spellings and
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 at 08:55:49, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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Grrr. Who made the English language so difficult???
Because it is so difficult and some of us take the trouble to learn it
correctly we don't mangle it like our cousins across the pond -
especially their leader.
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 at 09:01:58, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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but there is one word I don't recognise:
CEMISE
Anyone know if it's a valid word? Means nothing to me! Will probably be
on my mind all day now until I get home to look in a dictionary.
Only almost an acronym I
: [ql-users] Spelin'
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 at 09:01:58, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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but there is one word I don't recognise:
CEMISE
Anyone know if it's a valid word? Means nothing to me! Will probably be
on my mind all day now until I get home to look in a dictionary.
Only
but there is one word I don't recognise:
CEMISE
Anyone know if it's a valid word? Means nothing to me! Will probably be
on my mind all day now until I get home to look in a dictionary.
Only almost an acronym I think:
common management information service element
Maybe it was meant to
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On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 at 09:01:58, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
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but there is one word I don't recognise:
CEMISE
Anyone know if it's a valid word? Means nothing to me
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From: Tony Firshman
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Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spelin'
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 at 08:55:49, Dilwyn Jones wrote:
Won't be long before some versions of English are classed as separate
languages I suppose
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From: Dilwyn Jones
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Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] Spelin'
Geoff Wicks has British English and American English QTYP dictionaries, it
might be possible to run a comparison between the two for alternative
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 at 20:21:57, gwicks wrote:
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I once made two lovely mistakes in a document I wrote about a salary
agreement for my trade union. It was in the pre-WP days but a spell checker
would not have helped.
Problems of staffing not caused by bad management
English perhaps!
He he.
Dilwyn Jones
From: John Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2005/06/20 Mon PM 07:39:04 GMT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ql-users] Spelin'
I think Geoff might like this.
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss
terminology.
So, just as we always thought - pea seas are crap :-))
Darren.
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From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 June 2005 09:41
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Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spelin'
Just out of curiousity I tried it in Word (no QTYPon this machine
!
Dilwyn Jones
From: Darren Branagh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2005/06/21 Tue AM 08:51:10 GMT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [ql-users] Spelin'
I did the same.
I am sure there are different M$ Word spellcheck setups, as mine found
rong and shure to be incorrect spellings.
I asked
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 8:39 PM
Subject: [ql-users] Spelin'
I think Geoff might like this.
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a quay and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am
COLIN PARSONS wrote:
...
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew!
John Taylor
I may be being pedantic, but how about the missing apostrophe in it's,
it's miss-spelt with out it!!
But it's also rite to spell it's its.
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On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 at 21:30:28, Robert Newson wrote:
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COLIN PARSONS wrote:
...
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew!
John Taylor
I may be being pedantic, but how about the missing apostrophe in
it's, it's miss-spelt with out it!!
But it's
Colin Parsons wrote:
I think Geoff might like this.
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a quay and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am rong oar rite
It shows me strait aweigh.
As soon
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From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spelin'
Colin Parsons wrote:
I think Geoff might like this.
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my
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Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 11:02 PM
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From: Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spelin'
Colin Parsons wrote:
I think Geoff
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
SNIP
Grrr. Who made the English language so difficult???
Because it is so difficult and some of us take the trouble to learn it
correctly we don't mangle it like our cousins across the pond -
especially their leader.
--
Roy
In message
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Yes, you're right about rong, I missed that.
Somewhere along the line, mine must have learned SHURE. I'll have to
work out how to remove it now!
It is a microphone.
He he, things like this tend to expose all sorts of
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
=
It is letter perfect...
Therfore:
it's
Colin
So if you want an alternative word which matches the rest in its
wrongness, but passes the spell checker, you have to omit the
apostrophe. So the original was correct in its incorrectness.
Or
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From: Jeremy Taffel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spelin'
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
=
It is letter perfect...
Therfore:
it's
Colin
So if you want an alternative word
I think Geoff might like this.
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a quay and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am rong oar rite
It shows me strait aweigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
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