Re: [ql-users] Spelin'
Just out of curiousity I tried it in Word (no QTYPon this machine at work). No objection apart from the word 'chequer'. The text contains mostly words which are correct in a spell checking sense but which some of Geoff's programs might violently object to, a bit like correcting a Welshman's 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 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 It nose bee four two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever rong. Eye halve run this poem threw it I am shure your pleased two no Its letter perfect awl the weigh My chequer tolled me sew! John Taylor ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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 it to look up chequer using the online dictionary feature in outlook, and it actually found cheque, saying it was a alternative to check in UK finance terminology. So, just as we always thought - pea seas are crap :-)) Darren. -Original Message- From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 June 2005 09:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spelin' Just out of curiousity I tried it in Word (no QTYPon this machine at work). No objection apart from the word 'chequer'. The text contains mostly words which are correct in a spell checking sense but which some of Geoff's programs might violently object to, a bit like correcting a Welshman's 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 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 It nose bee four two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever rong. Eye halve run this poem threw it I am shure your pleased two no Its letter perfect awl the weigh My chequer tolled me sew! John Taylor ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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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! He he, things like this tend to expose all sorts of problems don't they! Will be interesting to see what QTYP, Style-Check etc make of John's text! 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 it to look up chequer using the online dictionary feature in outlook, and it actually found cheque, saying it was a alternative to check in UK finance terminology. So, just as we always thought - pea seas are crap :-)) Darren. -Original Message- From: Dilwyn Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 June 2005 09:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spelin' Just out of curiousity I tried it in Word (no QTYPon this machine at work). No objection apart from the word 'chequer'. The text contains mostly words which are correct in a spell checking sense but which some of Geoff's programs might violently object to, a bit like correcting a Welshman's 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 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 It nose bee four two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever rong. Eye halve run this poem threw it I am shure your pleased two no Its letter perfect awl the weigh My chequer tolled me sew! John Taylor ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Spelin'
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 rong oar rite It shows me strait aweigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee four two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever rong. Eye halve run this poem threw it I am shure your pleased two no 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!! Cheers Colin ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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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 also rite to spell it's its. ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 at 21:30:28, Robert Newson wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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. Exactly. It's is short for It is - in the possessive one uses 'its' normally. Quite illogical of course. Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@surname.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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 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 It nose bee four two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever rong. Eye halve run this poem threw it I am shure your pleased two no 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!! Cheers Colin He he, amazing how wrong something can be, yet still be readable! In my position of editing QL Today, the commonest errors I find in written English is the swapping of its and it's. It's is of course the same as it is but everyone thinks it's is possessive like any other 's as in Colin's. Its is the correct possessive. As my English teacher at school kept telling me until he gave up, at which point I remembered which was which once he'd stopped nagging! Grrr. Who made the English language so difficult??? -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 267.7.8/22 - Release Date: 17/06/2005 ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Spelin'
- Original Message - 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 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 It nose bee four two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever rong. Eye halve run this poem threw it I am shure your pleased two no 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!! Cheers Colin He he, amazing how wrong something can be, yet still be readable! In my position of editing QL Today, the commonest errors I find in written English is the swapping of its and it's. It's is of course the same as it is but everyone thinks it's is possessive like any other 's as in Colin's. Its is the correct possessive. As my English teacher at school kept telling me until he gave up, at which point I remembered which was which once he'd stopped nagging! Grrr. Who made the English language so difficult??? -- Dilwyn Jones Its letter perfect awl the weigh = It is letter perfect... Therfore: it's Colin ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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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 er! (my Spell Checker has just offered Thrasher) - Original Message - From: COLIN PARSONS [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 11:02 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Spelin' - Original Message - 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 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 It nose bee four two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever rong. Eye halve run this poem threw it I am shure your pleased two no 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!! Cheers Colin He he, amazing how wrong something can be, yet still be readable! In my position of editing QL Today, the commonest errors I find in written English is the swapping of its and it's. It's is of course the same as it is but everyone thinks it's is possessive like any other 's as in Colin's. Its is the correct possessive. As my English teacher at school kept telling me until he gave up, at which point I remembered which was which once he'd stopped nagging! Grrr. Who made the English language so difficult??? -- Dilwyn Jones Its letter perfect awl the weigh = It is letter perfect... Therfore: it's Colin ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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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 Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
Re: [ql-users] Spelin'
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 problems don't they! Will be interesting to see what QTYP, Style-Check etc make of John's text! Dilwyn Jones -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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 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 should I have writ Sew, if yew wont an awl-tern-native weird (think scouse) witch matte-chess the rest in it's wrongness, but parses the spelling chequer, yew have to .? Jeremy ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
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- Original Message - 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 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 should I have writ Sew, if yew wont an awl-tern-native weird (think scouse) witch matte-chess the rest in it's wrongness, but parses the spelling chequer, yew have to .? Jeremy ___ Perfectly correct, there is nothing worse than the Word spell checker, as I wanted to point out, it can't adjudicate between two perfectly correct spellings, of the common indefinite article, according to its context (correct possessive case of the pronoun), therfore it's useless!!! Cheers Colin ___ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
