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Lee
Lv 7
Lee asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 9 years ago

My spell check won't come up on Yahoo Answers What do I do to retreve it ?

All I get is Oops ! it looks like you have all words misspelled wrong. Really!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    That has never worked right. Most users ignore it.

  • 9 years ago

    The Y!A spell-checker is one of the biggest jokes on the site. It always seems to be checking the spelling in a language other than the one I am using. Ignore it.

    Myself, I use the spell-checker in my browser and ignore the Y!A one. I'm on Firefox and found it under Tools > Options > General. I checked the box that says "check my spelling as I type."

    That spell-checker is trustworthy and customizable. To add words to that list, right click on the word it flags. You'll get choices of other correctly-spelled words to use and a choice to add the word to the spell-checker's dictionary.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Anything I type is completely misspelled on that thing. Get Firefox and Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus and take the thing off. Then you'll just have Firefox's spellchecker, which works.

  • Rev
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    The Spell Checker has been malfunctioning for months, just lately it seems to not be working for anybody. Apparently, fixing it is not a high priority for Yahoo!.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    as log as what you're writng is edible, spell check is not thing to worry about.

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