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Yahoo answers spell checker?

Anyone else find the Yahoo Answers spell checker irritating. The way it goes: "Oops! It looks like you've made a spelling mistake." and "Hmm... It looks like you've got a lot of punctuation."

A little condescending I feel.

Surely the red underline is enough.

For the record my spelling is fine, it just doesn't like British spellings.

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  • Butsy
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    haha yeah i hate that ****..look there it is again..**** OFF spell checker!

  • 1 decade ago

    As a fellow Brit I can see where you're coming from.

    However!

    The irritating thing is not the notice that you may have misspelled/misspelt something. It's more the fact that people aren't using the spell checker at all.

    I should warn you that you've opened yourself up to all the S 4 brains who may introduce their own slant on the language just to be even more irritating. Good luck.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    it's good to use in case you mistype words, unless you abbreviate words, or shorten a word such as relationship to r'ship instead.

    as i type this in, a dialog box to the right - is showing:

    Oops! It looks like you have 1 misspelling(s).

    Open Spell Checker

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well of course I'm using a lot of punctuation. I'm British and literate.

    Surprisingly, Yahoo! can spell "liaise" and "liaison". Microsoft can't.

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  • 1 decade ago

    It disnae like scottish spelling either

  • 1 decade ago

    Mi spelleng is purfect. The spel cheq is rubish

  • 1 decade ago

    i live in britain, and sometimes it doesn't like the way i spell certain words

  • 7 years ago

    problematic situation. browse over google or bing. just that can assist!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    lol i like it cause im bad at spelling (:

    its corrects me when i say lol (:

  • 1 decade ago

    :) true!!!

    i know, it`s so annoying.

    (does it look like i`ve got ALOT of punctuation??)

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