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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Things that are currently pissing me off - 6
I'm having to type some stuff - limited aspects of a large report - in American. My bloody spell-checker keeps putting all the 'u's back in. Aaaaaaargh. When is gin o'clock, exactly?
3 comments:
Anonymous
said...
Change your spell-checker language to Eng (US) (aka "English for dummies").
Unfortunately, it is sentences and quotations in a larger work written in actual English. I'm not sure that the work necessary to change it phrase by phrase between 'u' and 'non-u' is sufficient unto the place thereof.
I took your advice on the latter point, however. Well before 9:34pm.
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A classical liberal & modern libertarian, economically laissez faire, and a governmental minimalist. Somewhat surprised to find this puts me way to the right of Chingis Khan.
Really, really pissed off at the endemic stupidity of the British governing cliques. Sometimes lets his potty mouth get the better of him.
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Change your spell-checker language to Eng (US) (aka "English for dummies").
Gin o'clock is a 24-hour thing.
Radical Rodent
Radical,
Unfortunately, it is sentences and quotations in a larger work written in actual English. I'm not sure that the work necessary to change it phrase by phrase between 'u' and 'non-u' is sufficient unto the place thereof.
I took your advice on the latter point, however. Well before 9:34pm.
You can set the spell-check language as part of the style in Word. Define a "quotation" style and it should adjust automatically.
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