I have a confession to make. I can’t spell. (Are you now thinking, “Didn’t I read somewhere that she’s a technical writer?”) Yep. That’d be right. I’m a technical writer who can’t spell. Spell Check has saved my life (and my job!) Shhhhh! Don’t tell my boss!!
I only use Firefox as my browser because it has a built-in spell check. (Funny, Firefox comes up as spelled wrong LOL)
I was much relieved when one of my three IM’ing applications came out with a version of built-in spell check.
And I always have my email checked when sending work email. (Personal email is composed in the oft-mentioned Firefox. Blog entries are composed there too…)
I’ve been known to copy/paste into and from Word before sending something out (even a simple IM) so everything is spelled right! Anal. I know.
The things that really trip me up? Graphics software. I’m boogying along, manipulating some graphic and I have to add some text to it… BAM! Ah crap. How do you spell that?? And it’s not always easy to fix a graphic once you’ve got it all together. (I tend use Word as mentioned above. Then I save in layers and have “source” graphics so I can go back and fix text if I need to!) They need to add spell check to all graphics packages!
But spell check doesn’t catch typos that are actual words! Or homonyms. Don’t get me wrong. I know the difference between they’re, their, and there. (I also know that should be “among” because there’s more than two, but it looks funny, doesn’t it??). I always write around effect and affect – because even if I look those up I still don’t know the difference. *blush* I think I just got the hang of who’s and whose. Maybe. I use the common errors in English website a bunch, but probably not as much as I should. LOL
So, I guess what I’m saying is…if you see an error in my blog … feel free to let me know. I’ll be highly embarrassed (LOL!), but I’d rather fix it right away instead of finding it myself a few days/weeks/months/years later and wonder how many people noticed. 🙂
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