**NOTICE** Pedant alert! I consider it reasonably important for communication and civility to make what I say here conform to some basic standards, though NOT as if I were writing for publication. If you do NOT care how your posts appear, I guess you may ignore my pedantry. (You may spell as you wish, of course, but SuperSearch sure has problems with mind reading.)




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We do not all have equal skills or abilities. I am a very mediocre typist, but a moderately good speller. I have some problems with my eyes and I have a nerve in my neck that causes posture problems. I have to be careful how I sit to type; I have to look at my fingers when I type; I ought to double check before I push the 'post' button, as my brain gets out of sync, and I sometimes leave out words.

I understand that others may have dyslexia, varying amounts of education, language differences and personal 'preferences' about their typing habits and are sometimes in a hurry.

What I do NOT understand is why people who have problems will wear glasses for their eye problems, but not use a spell checker to improve what they post. (Unfortunately, there is no grammar & punctuation checker yet).
   When I am going to be on Mudcat, I use TinySpell. It takes ONE click to change 'wierd' to 'weird'...and I can instruct the program to tolerate my wish to sometimes use 'thru' rather than spelling out 'through'. I can also turn OFF the warning 'beep' if I wish to intentionally spell like bobert to make a point.

There are various ways to do check spelling.....some type in a word processor and paste into the box here; I just prefer to do it 'on the fly'. (Of course, TinySpell is a PC program, but MAC users have spell checkers also).

*end pedant alert*