Firefox (British English) dictionary wtf
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Not tried in any of the other dictionaries. But when the British English dictionary is installed it highlights any words not recognised in standard text boxes, right-clicking on them gives suggestions.
Typed in a sentence including the phrase "one-upmanship", perfectly good English. However the dictionary didn't recognise "upmanship". Great I thought, spelt it wrong. So right-clicked on that word and the first suggestion was "one-upmanship"... Wtf?! I thought. So selected it, causing firefox to change the text to "one-one-upmanship", with "upmanship" still not recognised... Doh!
Robin
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Maybe you should fix that spelling error...
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Bloody Firefox.
It's just got to show that it knows that liiittle bit better than you, eh?
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My favourite is if you type in the word buckinghamshire (I think with the US dictionary). It has to be a lower-case "b" but the suggested word is quite suprising.
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@valerion said:
but the suggested word is quite suprising.
Who on earth thought it a good idea to have mo-fo in there? Even T9 doesn't have swearwords in by default.
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@PJH said:
Who on earth thought it a good idea to have mo-fo in there? Even T9 doesn't have swearwords in by default.
To reduce the number of squiggly red lines the average Myspace user has.
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@Otterdam said:
the average Myspace user
Never go there. From the general level of conversation I see from 'youngsters' elsewhere, don't they all treat their keyboards as if they were mobile phones and use txt-spk?[1]If so this theory's out the window.
[1] A rather disturbing thought just occured to me.
Somebody, somewhere, must have come up with a program/applet/whatever to convert a number-pad of a standard keyboard into a <font color="#ff6600">useful</font> simulcrum of a mobile phone keypad, with optional T9.
This is not a request. I do not need such a thing. Please do not feel the need to go out and Google for such a thing, just to prove one does exist, and advertise it here.
