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Nov 16 2012, 10:08 AM
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Nov 16 2012, 09:58 AM) And ... “I thought I was going to chock to death, I was petrified – I thought, this is it.”
Nasty thing chocking to death! I think the quote is using Lancashire vernacular.
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Nov 16 2012, 10:10 AM
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QUOTE (x2lls @ Nov 16 2012, 12:07 PM) So what happened to using a spellchecker? Wouldn't work would it as "chock" is a legitimate word.
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Nov 16 2012, 10:26 PM
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QUOTE (JeffG @ Nov 16 2012, 12:18 PM) I have just worked it out! They must be using the same spell checker as the editor on this forum, which (like the rest of this software) is American. Not only does it ban inconsequential words, like d a m n, but it underlines in red words like "tyre" and "colour". ("Tire" and "color" are just fine.) This forum doesn't have a spell checker - presumably your browser does.
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Nov 17 2012, 09:20 AM
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QUOTE (blackdog @ Nov 16 2012, 10:26 PM) This forum doesn't have a spell checker - presumably your browser does. Hmm. Maybe it's Chrome for Android then. Although Chrome help explains how to set up spell check language, that doesn't appear on the Android version. Will have to see what Windows does.
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Nov 18 2012, 09:00 AM
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QUOTE (Exhausted @ Nov 17 2012, 07:25 PM) I don't get too stressed about the NWN cockups. It's a local rag for local people, many of whom speed read it anyway, look to see who was born, died and in between had a birthday or got married. More than once my family have put announcements in the NWN only for one or more of the names to be spelled wrongly even though plainly quoted in the submission.
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Nov 18 2012, 01:18 PM
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Nov 18 2012, 09:00 AM) More than once my family have put announcements in the NWN only for one or more of the names to be spelled wrongly even though plainly quoted in the submission. Ah now that is something I would want sorted. You have paid for that insertion (as the actress said to the bishop) and are entitled to get redress for their error(s).
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Nov 18 2012, 03:17 PM
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QUOTE (Exhausted @ Nov 18 2012, 01:18 PM) Ah now that is something I would want sorted. You have paid for that insertion (as the actress said to the bishop) and are entitled to get redress for their error(s). ...which of course any good actress would have done as well.
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Nov 18 2012, 05:06 PM
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QUOTE (Exhausted @ Nov 18 2012, 03:18 PM) Ah now that is something I would want sorted. You have paid for that insertion (as the actress said to the bishop) and are entitled to get redress for their error(s). To be fair they did but I would rather it be correct in the first place than a refund or second, corrected, insertion. It's not that difficult to read what's plainly written in front of you. Is it?
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Nov 18 2012, 05:59 PM
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Nov 18 2012, 05:06 PM) To be fair they did but I would rather it be correct in the first place than a refund or second, corrected, insertion. It's not that difficult to read what's plainly written in front of you. Is it? Dyslexic Staff member?
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