March 21, 2009, Author: Conor, 3 Comments

Spellcheck fail

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This was too good not to share.

spellcheck-failOh, NeoOffice, how you disappoint me. Anyone running standard.dic on OpenOffice 2.4 or 3.0 want to test this word and see whether it’s wrong there, too?

If anyone else can confirm, then a bug report is in order. As of right now, Googling for OpenOffice and/or NeoOffice and “unchraismatically” yields no hits, so maybe it’s a custom word I somehow mistakenly added in the four days I’ve been using this computer. (I installed NeoOffice within this period.)

And Googling for it just made things more interesting.

google-spellcheck-fail-1Clicking on the suggested spelling, of course, yields:

google-spellcheck-fail-2The mystery deepens.

3 Responses to Spellcheck fail

  1. Julia says:

    I got office 3.0 and all I get is “uncharismatic ally”… sorry babe, i guess you just added that up yourself, especially considering that, even though Wikipedia believes unchraismatically to be a legit word, dictionary.com does not. I find it hard to believe that office would have in their dictionary database a word that dictionary.com doesnt have in theirs AND have it misspelled. Just saying.

  2. Julia says:

    Awww… I can actually edit my comments! that is freaking adorable!

  3. Conor says:

    Maybe I did. I somehow highly doubt it, though, as I can’t imagine typing that word twice in the same month, let alone same four days.

    And regarding the editable comments: I hate the interface, but it’s functional. Glad you like it. <3

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