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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Spelling Solution

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Guyon
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Posted: 30th Mar 2004 17:28
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I see so many people jumping on other for poor spelling. You have to realize that some are not native English speakers and others are just kids just trying to learn. I think this would be a nicer place if we watched our manners.

To do my part here is a FREE spelling program for the Internet Explorer browser. It works great for forums. Hope this helps!
http://www.iespell.com/
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Peter H
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Posted: 30th Mar 2004 17:46
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ooh ooh you spelled ...wrong! (j\k) ya good point...this area is one of my weak( ) points

ooh ooh i got this great idea master yoda we could make a game! and the game's story line would be...
"Your wife is death. How? NO idea. But it is murder. REVENGE!!!!!!!!!"
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BatVink
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Posted: 30th Mar 2004 18:31
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Of course, if I was to be reeeally picky, I would say that realize in native English is spelt realise.

Which would suggest that your dictionary is American English, true English being native, of course, to England.

Please take this light-heartedly (have I punctuated that last word correctly? )

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Guyon
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Posted: 30th Mar 2004 18:49
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The world "realize" is perfectly acceptable here. And yes I am guessing it is in American English. But look I am trying to help here, not argue about different forms of English.
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Peter H
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Posted: 30th Mar 2004 19:09
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Guyon-...he was joking!

ooh ooh i got this great idea master yoda we could make a game! and the game's story line would be...
"Your wife is death. How? NO idea. But it is murder. REVENGE!!!!!!!!!"
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BatVink
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Posted: 31st Mar 2004 16:44
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Thanks DarkWing, my fellow classic cartoon companion.

How about these...

The Lotus Notes dictionary does not contain the word Lotus
The Lotus Notes dictionary does not contain the word testicles
The Lotus Notes dictionary suggests that IBM helpdesk should be changed to IBM Helpless

Yes, I found these myself, including the second one.

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Chris K
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Posted: 31st Mar 2004 20:29
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I think you'll find that realize is the original English.

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BatVink
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Posted: 31st Mar 2004 22:23 Edited at: 31st Mar 2004 22:23
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Realize is valid in current day English, but wasn't always. If you were to look it up in a British Commonwealth dictionary which adheres to "true English", you wouldn't find realize.

Here's another interesting one...

font is American, in English it is fount, but thanks to Bill Gates you'll never see it spelt correctly.

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kidsa
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Posted: 31st Mar 2004 22:38
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what about macs(the apple computors)they used the word font before gates. i only insulted some ones typing when they typed in all caps and tried to call dbpro stupid(but did not spell it right). i cant type good so i get a lot of typos.

another one is
color
colour
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Shadow
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Posted: 1st Apr 2004 00:53
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According to a friend of mine who knows everything about this kind of stuff, the 'z' spellings are correct british english (e.g. realize) and that the 's' spellings have become acceptable over time.
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