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Since yesterday anytime I answer a question ALL the words are being identified as spelling errors. Anyone know?

What could be happening? I know it's NOT my computer. But every word is being "pulled" by the spell checker as an error. Every word....

Update:

THAT'S what I said EVERY word.

Update 2:

theman - Just answer a simple question please. Thanks

Update 3:

So I don't need eye-glasses after all:)

Update 4:

So I don't need eye-glasses after all:)

Update 5:

OH! NOW MY WHOLE SENTENCES R BEING REPEATED

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  • Froggy
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    If you know that you have spelt the words correctly, then ignore Yahoo spell checker - it's useless and mostly gives incorrect answers.

    It seems to be working OK now as it hasn't flagged anything of this.

    Source(s): Educator
  • jen
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    I had the same thing happen as well. Yesterday after writing a small sentence, it said over and over that there were 22 errors. Now it just started acting up again. It was fine for the last 45 minutes.

    Edit: I'm on Firefox, so the issue is just not limited to the other browsers. Has anyone noticed that the pages are super slow to load? Again, it started yesterday.

  • 9 years ago

    Yea it is happening to me too just gives a random like oh by the way you have 55 misspelled words. I first noticed it when my girlfriend, who works at a proofreading agency, had over 30 "misspelled" words.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    It's not happening with Firefox, so I suspect it's a glitch between Yahoo! and Internet Explorer. Bear with it. I'm sure Yahoo! is aware of the conflict and is fixing it.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    It's a glitch within Yahoo. It's funny because I got 378 misspellings on one of my posts.

  • julz
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    That's happening to me too. I got a chuckle out of it. Evidently the tech staff at Yahoo! has a job on its hands.

  • 9 years ago

    mine has been doing every word

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American educator, lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education." His blue-backed speller books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read, and made their education more secular and less religious. According to Ellis (1979) he gave Americans "a secular catechism to the nation-state." His name became synonymous with "dictionary," especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.He then looked at people who misspell words and said to them, "You sir......are a retard"

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