Gaze greenly upon my grammatical geekiness, Pashmina! PooterGeek can now check your comments for spelling mistakes, even as you type. If you want the Dictionary Police to patrol your prose just click on whichever spell-checking option you prefer as it now appears above the Comment box. Be patient. They take a little while to process your words, but these virtual officers are even UK/US-English agnostic. How kewl is that?
[Tested with recent versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Mozilla. The management accepts no responsibility for embarrassment caused by homonyms or user stupidity. Your Internet connection is at risk if you do not keep up payments to your service provider. PooterGeek is a licensed edit broker.]
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Ohhhhh. I think I’m going to have to go for a little lie-down.
Wow, very impressive! Where did you get it?
You can get it for WordPress from this page.
Cheers - I will add this to my list of Things to do to my blog when I get back from holiday
Don’t you mean homophones rather than homonyms? For example, if you typed ‘threw’ but meant ‘through’? Homonyms are spelt the same way usually.
This is very impressive, but a bit creepy. What we need now is something that checks whether you’re talking sense as you type…
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[…] A while back, when I installed a spellchecker module for PooterGeek’s comments system, Old Peculiar picked at my use of the word “homonyms” in the accompanying warning. I was (of course) write to use it, if a little relaxed, as you will sea from this nice explanation of the relationship between homonyms, homophones, and homographs and other linguistic traps by a copy editor. […]