Early Witer bits and bobs.

[Monika]

Richard, be warned: I once turned the automatic spellchecker on accidentally and nearly sent off some text to our local magazine with some hilariously wrong words!

Many thanks for the explanation of 'scrow', MW. I like local dialect words and hope they will never die out. Having lived in the Yorkshire Dales for more than 50 years (and with my OH being a 'native'), I am pretty au fait with the Yorkshire dialect but am still surprised at times about what crops up.

[Ricard with an H]

Richard, be warned: I once turned the automatic spellchecker on accidentally and nearly sent off some text to our local magazine with some hilariously wrong words!

My problem has occasionally been with my over-reliance on spell-checker, on a Mac this is an American-English version and so has to 'learn'. This over-reliance transferred to the iPad when I first started using an iPad and it took some time for me to realise that the iPad had a mind of it's own.

I don't don't to mix with my old-mates in Nottingham very often, because I became 'estranged' they now regard me as "Posh" talking though my local community regards me as having a Yorkshire accent which all suggests I still have an accent though the effects of me trying to speak more clearly for the benefit of others has meant knocking the corners off my accent.

'Mardy' is something I still use and have to explain. A child who always cried was mardy or an adult who enjoys to criticise yet sulks when criticised is mardy. (My Mac spell checker has red-lined mardy so I'll add it to the dictionary.)

[Elaine]

Love scrow!

I like dialect words too and sadly, here in Hull, you rarely hear the younger generations using any so they will die out.

I particularly like the words for feeling too hot... mafted and nithered for too cold.
"I'm mafted".
"I'm nithered"
Also dowly meaning miserable..which can apply to the weather or ones feelings.
"It's a right dowly day".
"I'm a bit dowly"

So sad that localised dialects will eventually disappear.

[Elaine]

Spellchecker on this laptop annoys me to death! Even though it's set to UK English rather than American English, it still red lines words and tries to tell me the American spelling is right...I'm practically re-writing the dictionary.

[Ricard with an H]

Elaine, is that a Mac or does Microsoft also suffer ? Another question, when I occasionally recommend friends use a spell checker at-least as a means to learning they claim to not have a spell checker which mystifies me. I do know that some browsers do not incorporate the Mac spell checker, Firefox is one. Is this also the case with Explorer ?

I have only ever used a Mac so I'm green on these issues and on the issue of using a spell checker we can only lead the horse to the water. If some are too lazy to read and edit what they wrote we'll end up with tripe.

My eldest grandson is the sun shining through clouds on this issue, he constantly ridicules his pals and others for portraying themselves as dim when with a bit of effort the people reading their nonsense text may have a little more respect. He is in-fact the much criticised spelling police in his youthful community.

Well done Oliver.

[PLUMPUDDING]

It has been so mild this winter that my rhubarb has started sending new shoots up. I've mulched them with hen hut cleanings to keep the frost off, but the blackbirds keep uncovering them.

[Elaine]

Richard. I don't have a Mac.. I use the Google Chrome browser and it's spellchecker but Internet Explorer also has one...or it used to.

Good lad, Oliver! Very pleased to hear it!

[Monika]

We covered one of our rhubarb plants up today with an upturned dustbin full of straw. The young shoots were already well up.

I also cleared all our winter brassicas off the part of the allotment which we have given up, so brought home a bin bag full of sprouts, flower sprouts (= brukale), curly, seaweed, Ragged Jack and Cavolo Nero kale. I steamed them all in batches in two large steamers, then chopped and mixed it and froze the result in two-portion bags. This means that the new people who have taken on that part of the allotment can get on with preparing it for themselves.

It's sleeting at the moment - snow tomorrow?

[Geoff]

Firefox has a British English Dictionary add-on. But why call it that? The default should be American (Incorrect English) Dictionary and the option English Dictionary.
The most fun I had with a dictionary was when I was writing letters and emails to install a borehole, it wanted to change it to brothel, doubt there would be a market up here with all the sheep for free.

[oldherbaceous]

Geoff!!!!!!!

[Ricard with an H]

I tried a number of times to install the Firefox spellchecker but it never worked, The only reason I wanted to use Firefox was that some internet sites still don't work with Safari. What irritates me about this spellchecker is that it isn't accurate.

For example, spellchecker should be two words or it should be hyphenated. Yes ? That's just an example and where I get cornered by pals whom I criticised in the past so they look for my mistakes.

[Gerry]

I had a funny experience with "Predict text".
When I first moved to Ireland I had a UK Bank credit card and if I ever used it I would pay it off as soon as I received the bill. However the next bill had interest on it and the same for a couple of times after that.

Then I noticed that the address on the envelope finished "IRAN" instead of Ireland. Lloyds reimbursed the interest. It was arriving in Ireland from England via Iran. How good is that.

Regards,
Gerry.

[robo]

Try ispell free download ,will not interfere with your typing! when you have finnished typing your thread right click your mouse then click ispell it works for me

[oldherbaceous]

I never pull anyone up in a bad way for spelling....but i do see the funny side of it, so in this case of ispell, "finnished"

[Pa Snip]

with OH.

Robo has perhaps inadvertently used a Nordic spell check.
Wonder if he has checked his swedes lately