Dodgy spelling!

[Les Symonds]

I accept that I'm not the world's best scholar so far as spelling and grammar are concerned, but I do my best and I get a bit miffed when I see some of the typing-trash on the internet, but this takes the biscuit. I took this from an advert on eBay....yep, it's for a bowel gauge , but I don't think I'll be bidding on it!



  Les

[edbanger]

Is that the new type

[woodndesign]

Surely it's the posh word .. Les.

I recall at one time waiting to be served at a Pub, the barman couldn't comprehend the gentleman asking for a glass of 'top water' ...    ..  didn't want to pay for the bottle stuff.

Cheers   Dewi

[Bryan Milham]

I've seen a Bowel Gouge (not gauge), It's for a U bend flute!

Groan quietly please.

[cookie21]

I don't recommend buying the bowel gouge it looks like a load of sh"t

[Roderick Evans]

Wouldn't fancy a Spinedle gouge either!!!

[Turners cabin]

As a retailer myself there is no excuse for poor spelling but i must also sympathize with poor spellings in myself have dyslexia and even with a spell checker often get words wrong.  All I ask is if anyone ever spots a typo on any of my work please drop me an email and I will rectify it.

[seventhdevil]

i reckon they've just not checked what they wrote and hit the "e" along with the "w" as they are next to each other.

[Graham]

I think the worst thing you can do is rely on the spellchecker without checking it. The words may be spelt correct but have no relation to what you meant them to be 

[woodndesign]

I think the worst thing you can do is rely on the spellchecker without checking it. The words may be spelt correct but have no relation to what you meant them to be 

I've found that, just writing on here, will highlights the word is not correct or written wrong , lick on it and will read as .. often far from being right ...    ..

The wife most often works from the ipad and that is notorious for pre-empting, reading out and adding odd words, if not checked can lead to an interesting message.

[Derwent Woodturning club]

I think the worst thing you can do is rely on the spellchecker without checking it. The words may be spelt correct but have no relation to what you meant them to be 

This is nothing to do with woodturning but is an amusing tale about using spellcheckers, so hope you enjoy it.

Many years ago I used to work in the computer industry. At the time there were several companies producing word processing software with associated spell checkers. One of these was called Word Perfect.

At the same time one of the major companies supplying hardware for computer networks was Novell, but that company was also looking at moving into the software industry, so they bought Word Perfect. All ok so far!

Apparently one of their customers was supplied with their new (Word Perfect) word processing software and used it to place an order for some new equipment, by letter. The order included 16 copies of Novell Netware, the networking system software. The manager decided to place the order himself, so typed it out, printed and posted it. What he didn't do was proof read it after he had used the spell checker. Unfortunately Word Perfect did not recognise Novell as a valid word, so automatically replaced it with the nearest match, which was 'Novelty'. Nor did it recognise 'Netware', so replaced it with 'nightware'. You can imagine the amusement when the letter was opened and the order for "16 copies of Novelty nightware" was read out.

I know this is a pretty historic anecdote but I hope it amuses you, as it did all of us at the time, and it is a good reminder to NEVER let a computer make human decisions.

[MCB]

i reckon they've just not checked what they wrote and hit the "e" along with the "w" as they are next to each other.

In my experience the people who create spell checkers tend to assume that the person typing is  a good typist who hits the keys intended but a poor speller rather than an intelligent man with a good command of orthography but clumsy fingers. So the algorithms tend NOT to offer words where the keys are near those in the incorrect word.

Perhaps spell checkers have improved.

I  suppose that everybody has seen this:

  OWED TWO A SPILL CHEQUER
 
  Eye halve a spilling chequer
  It came with my pea sea
  It plane lea marques four my revue
  Miss steaks eye kin knot sea...
        
  Eye strike a quay and type a word
  And weight four it two say
  Weather eye am wrong oar write
  It shows me strait a weigh...
 
  You're chequer is a bless sing
  It freeze yew lodes of thyme
  It helps me right awl stiles two reed
  And aides mi when aye rime...
 
  As soon as a mist ache is maid
  It nose bee fore two long 
  And eye can put the error rite
  It's rare lea ever wrong...
 
  Each frays come posed up on my screen
  Eye trussed too bee a joule
  The checker pours or every word
  To cheque sum spelling rule...
 
  To rite with care is quite a feet
  Of witch won should be proud
  And wee mussed dew the best wee can
  Sew flaws are knot aloud...
 
  Bee fore a veiling checker's 
  Hour spelling mite decline
  And if we're lacks oar have a laps
  We wood bee maid too wine...
 
  But now bee cause my spelling
  is checked with such grate flare,
  Their are know faults with in my cite 
  Of nun eye am a wear...
 
  Now spelling does knot phase me,
  It does knot bring a tier
  My pay purrs awl due glad den
  With rite word's far and near...
 
  That's why aye brake in two averse,
  My righting wants too pleas...
  Sow now ewe sea wye aye dew prays
  Such soft wear for pea seas...
 
  Eye ran this poem threw it,
  And am shore your pleased two no 
  Its letter perfect awl the weigh...
  My chequer tolled me sew!
 
          __ Sores Knot None


MC

[The Bowler Hatted Turner]

I'm afraid when it comes to writing (here or anywhere else)I am a bit old fashioned.(No surprise there then I hear you all saying)I do use spell checker occasionally (is it o double c or double s ? I can never remember)just to make sure I do not end up spellingly embarrassed. (Is it double r double s?) What I write sometimes may not be the best of compositions but I do always try to get it correctlt spelded.

[julcle]

Ahh WordPerfect !!!!    32 floppy discs to install 

[TONY MALIN]

Thee purrfekt and sayfest towel four't jobb is of coarse a dikshunnarry. It's mannually opperrated and you kanturnthepages at wotever spead you feel cumfourtabul with.
Bumpt into Officer Crabbtree's (AloAlo) mother recently. She ashured me he's still prictising his pronounciation.

A word of warning for anyone thinking of correcting someone's spelling. I was once threatened with violence when I corrected his pronunciation of the German wine "riesling".