Apr
03
2008

Google Is My Spell Checker

Thursday, April 3, 2008 - 10:56:19 am
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So, I'm current writing up some meeting minutes, and need to spell the word "Surpurfulous". And so I'm lazy, type it really quickly and incorrectly, press space, and right click it to correct it. But Thunderbird doesn't have any suggestion on the correct spelling for 'Surplurfulous'.

But, y'know, that's okay. Thunderbird's spell checking isn't the best, and that's really fine, it relatively new, and to be honest, to have any spell checking in Thunderbird is such a great change.

So, I open up Microsoft Word, paste in the text and it also has no suggestions on the correct spelling. This is pretty shocking.

So in a last ditch attempt, I paste the text into a Google search box. Google comes back and says "Did you mean: Surpurfulous". Why yes, that is absolutely what I meant. Microsoft Word couldn't work it out, yet your search engine could! Thank you Google. [smile]

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