WP spellchecker is driving me nuts

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25 Nov 2011, 8:36 am

My spelling is fairly precise, and the WP spellchecker keeps telling me I'm misspelling words that I actually got right.

It's a continuous assault on my self esteem, all this self doubt and looking up the dictionary. I feel like I'm correcting the teacher again.

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25 Nov 2011, 10:35 am

... there's a spell checker?

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25 Nov 2011, 10:40 am

I get wiggly red lines under misspelled words. Maybe it's Google chrome browser. Oh, yeah, must be that. It just chided me for not capitalizing "google." Arrogant jerks.

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25 Nov 2011, 11:09 am

Burnbridge wrote:

I get wiggly red lines under misspelled words. Maybe it's Google chrome browser. Oh, yeah, must be that. It just chided me for not capitalizing "google." Arrogant jerks.

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25 Nov 2011, 11:45 am

you think, you have a problem? google pardon Google Chrome underlies every word that doesnt excist in German, for me. So in this sentance the only words not underlined were: "Google" and "So in"

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25 Nov 2011, 12:20 pm

WP doesn't have a spellchecker! Whatever is appearing as spelling mistakes is being done by whatever browser you are using. If your spellings are correct there is normally an option to right click the offending word and tell your browser to add that word to its acceptable spelling list.

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25 Nov 2011, 12:28 pm

nana80 wrote:

you think, you have a problem? google pardon Google Chrome underlies every word that doesnt excist in German, for me. So in this sentance the only words not underlined were: "Google" and "So in"

i see what you did there

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25 Nov 2011, 2:15 pm

hyperlexian wrote:

Burnbridge wrote:

I get wiggly red lines under misspelled words. Maybe it's Google chrome browser. Oh, yeah, must be that. It just chided me for not capitalizing "google." Arrogant jerks.

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25 Nov 2011, 6:07 pm

nana80 wrote:

you think, you have a problem? google pardon Google Chrome underlies every word that doesnt excist in German, for me. So in this sentance the only words not underlined were: "Google" and "So in"

Try this:
http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bi ... swer=95604
(step 4 - is there a spill chucker selection or language pack available to help it with German words?)

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nana80
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25 Nov 2011, 6:48 pm

German is not my problem, My browser doesnt understand english...

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25 Nov 2011, 6:58 pm

:oops: Apologies. I seem to have inverted what you'd said.
I really ought to be awake when I comment...

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25 Nov 2011, 7:03 pm

Cornflake wrote:

:oops: Apologies. I seem to have inverted what you'd said.
I really ought to be awake when I comment...

no worries as long as only so innocent things get inverted. Not like in the other thread...

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26 Nov 2011, 6:44 am

if you right-click on the underlined word, there should be a "add to dictionary" option.

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