Internet Spelling Errors.....

I am more intarested in what your trying to say. Coherent sentences are a bonus.

Theres no spell checker in IE and all the add ons you can get straight up suck. It drives me nuts. I have to use Microsoft IE for work because of compatibility issues with certain sites i need to go to. I use Chrome at home and it has spell check and its 100% better and faster but im stuck with IE for work.

When I was in 10th grade my school tested me for spelling and I placed at a 4th grade level. My normal spelling is so bad microsoft and google spell checker cant even make a suggestion or come close to the word im looking for (several times daily). For some people spelling is not a strong point. Some people may also have dyslexia or at least a mild form of it and not know it. Poor spelling isn’t normally indicative of laziness although there are counter measures you can take.

For most of my posts that are more than 2 sentences long, I paste it in a email first for spell checking then repost it in the forum. The problem is its unrealistic to expect people to always think to do that for 1 or 2 sentences or statements, which thread titles are.

As someone who has struggled with spelling my entire life ive adapted when using IE and use certain tricks, but I still make mistakes regularly. If you want to blame someone blame Microsoft IE. They easily could implement spell checker like chrome or firefox but don’t, likely as a effort to push their Office products.

My speeling sucks and I really had no clue how bad it was until I started posting on the internet. My mother would flip if she knew how bad I am with spelling and grammar. My mother is like one class from having a DR. degree in both. Not sure how I got that by her all those years but some how I did. I'll say its not my teachers fault it was mine because I did not try in school and spelling and grammar did not come easy to me and it shows I did not try. Math did come easy so even though I did not care in school I'm still good in math. If I could go back in life that's one thing I would change. I had spelling check here but when my computers got fried I have not figure how to install spell check for posting.


I would highly suggest installing Chrome. Its easier to use, its faster and less clunky and best of all it has a spell checker just like if you were typing in a email or word document.

Firefox has spell check too.

You know what has the best spell checker of all time?

Google Search

Sometimes I can't even get Word to correct the spelling for me but Google can do it.

speling is hrd 4me 2 do, thts y i txt u all

Or you can always just copy and paste into Outlook or Word and run spell check there.

I'm really convinced our schools failed us when it comes to spelling and grammar. That and people are just lazy.

To this point, I'm pretty tough on it in the workplace. I have one young analyst who is very strong analytically but a terrible speller and writer. I've told him that unless you clean that up and improve it I will never be in a position to promote you, no matter how good you are at the analysis. He's young and he's got time, but it has to be taken seriously because if you can't intelligently communicate your thoughts then all the quality thought and analysis in the world doesn't get anybody anywhere.

It's a fundamental skill, if you don't have it you're nearly worthless in a corporate work environment.

You know what has the best spell checker of all time?

Google Search

Sometimes I can't even get Word to correct the spelling for me but Google can do it.

Yep, I use that all the time.

As Matty mentioned FireFox has a 'live' spellcheck so it corrects as you type. If it's that big a deal then that should be an easy choice.