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Mark A. RaynerIt's so exciting when I get to unwaprd a package I've been waiting for!Proofreading: it matters!<a href="https://mas.to/tags/typo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#typo</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/typos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#typos</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spelling</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/proofreading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#proofreading</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/editing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#editing</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humor</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humour</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/fargileItMustBeItalian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fargileItMustBeItalian</a>

BoneQuestToday in BoneQuest History for May 10th 2006 "COJHGLUBBLHUGGLE" <a href="https://bonequest.com/2749" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bonequest.com/2749</a> <a href="https://bonequest.net/tags/bonequest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bonequest</a> :spigot: :pants: <a href="https://bonequest.net/tags/bonequest_hi_fi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bonequest_hi_fi</a> <a href="https://bonequest.net/tags/cojhglubblhuggle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cojhglubblhuggle</a> <a href="https://bonequest.net/tags/overlong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overlong</a> <a href="https://bonequest.net/tags/pants_spigot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pants_spigot</a> <a href="https://bonequest.net/tags/park_n_suck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#park_n_suck</a> <a href="https://bonequest.net/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spelling</a>

Lydia Conwell :mastodon:<a href="https://todon.nl/tags/WritingTips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WritingTips</a> There are lots of tips for <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writers</a> about do this and don't do that, but one thing that is very important is to be aware of homophones.There and Their are common ones but there are actually a lot more (depending on your accent) than you might first realise.course/coarse, hanger/hangar, led/lead, etc.It's so very easy to miss these, even if you know the correct spelling.Not only that, there are also words of similar spelling that mean very different things. I posted a toot the other day about the words Torturous and Tortuous. But there are also things like Tentative and Attentive.And stupid spellcheck won't spot any of these!Stupid spellcheck.<a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spelling</a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/SpellingMistakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpellingMistakes</a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Writing</a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Spellcheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spellcheck</a>

Jody HughesIt’s quite easy to mistakenly write lead (element Pb) instead of led, because they sound the same. I see this all the time. But it never seems to happen that people write read (past tense) instead of red, yet the two situations seem similar.I guess it has to do with the relative common-ness of led and red, and the fact that we learn red much earlier than led.<a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/wordplay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wordplay</a> <a href="https://cupoftea.social/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spelling</a>

BobDevney<a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pluralistic</a> Beloved Tor editor Teresa Nielsen Hayden once wrote about interviewing candidates for publishing jobs. If they could spell "accommodate," they might make good copy editors.Decades ago, after fumbling it myself, I asked 30 other experts how to spell the word. All my fellow marketing writers plus managers, editors, tech writers, etc., in the corporate communications office where I worked. Only 1 person — a lowly (but beloved) typist — got it right.<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Words</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spelling</a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Publishing</a>

CBC Top StoriesWhy isn't 'laugh' spelled L-A-F? Author explores the many failed attempts of simplifying English spelling Have you ever wondered why English spelling often seems to defy logic — like why choir and liar rhyme, but laughter and daughter don’t? In his new book, Gabe Henry explores this c... <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spelling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#English</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Radio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Radio</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/TheCurrent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TheCurrent</a> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/why-isn-t-laugh-spelled-l-a-f-author-explores-the-many-failed-attempts-of-simplifying-english-spelling-1.7514096?cmp=rss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/why-isn-t-laugh-spelled-l-a-f-author-explores-the-many-failed-attempts-of-simplifying-english-spelling-1.7514096?cmp=rss</a>

William SmithI'll go ahead and say it. Predictive typing is as advanced as just throwing spaghetti at a wall and seeing what sticks.The typo in "hour” is mine. The suggestion to complete the sentence with "horseshoe” is Microsoft Outlook’s.Even worse, I have "Check spelling as you type” and “Check grammar as you type" both turned on.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#computers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grammar</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/predictive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#predictive</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spelling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/typing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#typing</a>

Third spruce tree on the leftGrammarly: we miss you! Did you take a writing break? me: it's not you, it's my new IT department won't allow <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Grammarly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Grammarly</a> and Microsoft Editor sucks donkey balls; I guess having proper <a href="https://mas.to/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spelling</a>, grammar and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#punctuation</a> in our product <a href="https://mas.to/tags/documentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#documentation</a> isn't a priority here at InniTrobe.

HiisikoloartWhenever I write text lines to my comic, I start staring at words with utter confusion; I feel like I can never be sure how things are spelled and if I am using the right sentence structure.Then I try to remind myself that people will tell me if I spelled something absolutely wrong...and it mainly matters that people get the idea.I am not perfect, and even native speakers (English) get stuff wrong all the time. :P<a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/webcomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#webcomic</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#artist</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spelling</a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a>

:blobcataww:RT appreciated because this is a major life quality issue: the lack of spell checkers for Samsung tablet. I use a Samsung Galaxy S9+ Tab (I strongly recommend against ever getting a Samsung device, for many reasons. Happy to elaborate further). This specific one doesn't have inbuilt spellchecker, confirmed with the Samsung support who fluffed around for ages before admitting only some models have it, you can't know unless if you bought this specific tablet, then blamed me for not doing research. Firefox has completely disabled all Android spellcheckers, both inbuilt and extension. I think what's happening now, is we are being forced to use the online ones that comes with monthly subscription that also sells your work to LLM training models. I'm not a native English speaker. I'm also dyslexic. Anyone found any ways around this? While I'd like to never use Microsoft Office Suit, at this point it seems like Microsoft is the least evil out of all the major players. Anyone found a way of bypassing this? (Do not ask me to google it, google has fallen as a search engine for at least five years now, it's all SEO based irrelevant spam regardless of what your search term is). <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spelling</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/NESB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NESB</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Dyslexia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dyslexia</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Accessibility</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Spellcheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spellcheck</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Spell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spell</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Check" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Check</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/spellchecker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spellchecker</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/checker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#checker</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Samsung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Samsung</a>

FunHouse Radio► <a href="https://FunHouseRadio.com" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://FunHouseRadio.com</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meme</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/sign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/pork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pork</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/groceries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#groceries</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/meat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meat</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/fail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fail</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spelling</a>

AI6YR BenHow is pre-existing not in the Firefox (Linux?) dictionary, but pee-existing is? 🤔<a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spelling</a>

Liz the Urban BirderWhen DIY jobs go WROGWhat is wrog with this picture…?<a href="https://mspsocial.net/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spelling</a> <a href="https://mspsocial.net/tags/misspelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#misspelling</a>

Charlotte AtenWhy aren't spelling bees like golf where whoever get the fewest words wrong wins? It would keep it more interesting for the audience since the kids they're rooting for stay in the competition longer.<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/SpellingBee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpellingBee</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spelling</a>

Discount Storytime<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comedy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/funny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#funny</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#podcasts</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#quotes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/timetravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#timetravel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spelling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grammar</a>

Tim Richards<a href="https://masto.allrite.at/@allrite" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@allrite</a> I noticed nearly all the typos in the first book were homophones, eg lightening > lightning, straight > strait, breaks > brakes, etc. Spellcheck is no good for those.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spelling</a>

Tim RichardsJust sent the author of two travel narrative books a list of typos to fix. Is that too presumptuous? They're great reads, but would be better if 'lightening' was correctly spelled 'lightning' etc. <a href="https://aus.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spelling</a>

John SturgeonI disagree with <a href="https://mastodon.social/@gruber" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@gruber</a> here. I think the internet is more like the sky than the Earth. The Earth is a singular thing, but the sky is defined by all of the elements in it. In that sense the internet is more like the sky than the Earth and therefore does not justify a capital I.Thoughts:<a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/11/new-yorker-style-modernizations" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/03/11/new-yorker-style-modernizations</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#internet</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spelling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/daringfireball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#daringfireball</a>

Stan CareyA brief history (and critique) of English spelling reform that I once wrote for <a href="https://mastodon.world/@HistoryToday" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@HistoryToday</a>: <a href="https://www.historytoday.com/brief-history-english-spelling-reform" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.historytoday.com/brief-history-english-spelling-reform</a> Supplementary notes on the history of English spelling reform: <a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/the-history-of-english-spelling-reform/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/the-history-of-english-spelling-reform/</a><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spelling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/EnglishUsage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnglishUsage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LanguageChange</a>

BoneQuestToday in BoneQuest History for March 5th 2010 "SOMEONE JERK ME" <a href="https://bonequest.com/4131" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bonequest.com/4131</a> <a href="https://bonequest.net/tags/bonequest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bonequest</a> :pants: :deuce: <a href="https://bonequest.net/tags/deuce_pants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deuce_pants</a> <a href="https://bonequest.net/tags/mouse_cursor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mouse_cursor</a> <a href="https://bonequest.net/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spelling</a>

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