Twitter spellings test

Here is a free version John, thank google for that.
http://books.google.nl/books?id=q86Vh2_VzZgC&pg=PA368&dq=Merriam-Webster's+Medical+Dictionary+1995+lense&hl=nl&ei=AqYgToe6FZGe-Qac1PScAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

or...
CTRL + SHIFT + & followed by A
But Gwyn's method is easier...

That didn't work for me Stefan - besides mine is more elegant - only two keys to push .

100% here Stefan - and I always spell lens LENS

Didn't work for me either, nor did the dictionary. It showed the pages before and the pages after. The page required had a mysterious message, presumably in Dutch.

Life's too short...

OK, I got 95%. Ironically, the only one I got wrong was misspell (which is not a word I ever use - I went for the hyphenated version).

Quite annoyed actually, as I'm lucky to be pretty good at spelling.

EM

By the way Stefan - why did you use the Merriam Webster Medical Dictionary ?

Here you go John.
[IMG]http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk244/Anvh/Lense.png[/IMG]

my combination probably doesn't work in your browser but it should work in Microsoft Word though.

Indeed very ironic, i got that one right i believe.

Because that one has the spelling of lense in it but i don't think you mean that...
I don't have the book and never looked in it even but i'm good at finding things on the web.

I've never found a pound sign either Stefan. Haven't found an Ascii code for one either. So I'll stick to GBP for now.


Another annoyance - grammatical, not spelling is the Greengrocer's apostrophe.

I have looked it up Gwyn, it's Shift+AltGr+4
Don't you get an headache of remembering all those codes...

I've never been good with spelling, you should see the silly mistakes i've made in my life
Glamorous is a word i've difficulties with to write, also business is such a word.

The real danger of people misspelling lens is that "lense" will end up as an acceptable variant in all the proper dictionaries before long. Dictionary compilers check written English from as many sources as possible and include any spellings or meanings (however wrong) that are in wide use in their revised editions.

This is why the incorrect definition of words such as "decimate" now appear as alternatives in many dictionaries -- blow me, I've just heard "decimate" used to mean "devastate" on Radio 4! Eventually, all words will come to mean whatever enough people want them to mean. Cats can be called dogs and red can mean blue.

Today's crop of journalists are among the worst offenders. How many times do you see them using that nonsense word proactive, when they just mean active (as opposed to passive).

I can't find a reputable dictionary (either US or UK) that uses the spelling "lense". Medical people are notoriously poor spellers. These Merriam-Webster medical chappies should stick to their specialism.

Rant over. Time for bed.

Al

I hate it when people misspell Horse.


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Just sayin... that is all.

One of my favorites, HARRY OLIVER, wrote: It is a narrow minded person who thinks there is only one way to spell a word.

He also wrote, I never did learn how to spell,—but I did learn the typesetter's rule,—"Set up type as long as you can hold your breath without turning blue in the face, then put in a comma. When you gape, put in a semicolon, and when you want to sneeze, that's the time to make a paragraph."

Words to live by.

Not on my netbook - all I get then the AltGr 4 character

GBP it is for me.

When I can get up a few flights of stairs I'll try it on the PC too.

English isn't my native language, i'm not a student, no info about being dyslectic but i also scored 80% correct.