and your spell checker gets a module that suggests cheaper words to use in your sentences. And it takes in account the extra tax on words the government doesn't like. You can still write what you want but some things are really costly..
I used to live in Clackmannanshire - it's an area of Scotland that encompasses several small towns and villages. A bit of digging and I find that the town this store is in is: Clackmannan.
Now I wish I had a better spell chequer than a teacher shouting at me when I was growing up. (Dyslexia hadn't been invented back then) Trying to write Clackmannanshire as part of my address was bothersome!
Other local towns include Sauchie (Pronounced Sawki) Tullibody and Tillicoultry. The local big hill is Dumyat (Dum
much will depend on how much Clackmannanshire is willing to pay. The Coca Cola company has paid through the nose to give their beverages the highes ranking (the spell checker will recommend as a cheaper option over 'water') . If Clackmannanshire wants to have its name spelled correctly it'll cost them. Until then the spell checker will propose "somewhere near Edinburgh".
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and your spell checker gets a module that suggests cheaper words to use in your sentences. And it takes in account the extra tax on words the government doesn't like. You can still write what you want but some things are really costly..
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Now I wish I had a better spell chequer than a teacher shouting at me when I was growing up. (Dyslexia hadn't been invented back then) Trying to write Clackmannanshire as part of my address was bothersome!
Other local towns include Sauchie (Pronounced Sawki) Tullibody and Tillicoultry. The local big hill is Dumyat (Dum
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much will depend on how much Clackmannanshire is willing to pay. The Coca Cola company has paid through the nose to give their beverages the highes ranking (the spell checker will recommend as a cheaper option over 'water') . If Clackmannanshire wants to have its name spelled correctly it'll cost them. Until then the spell checker will propose "somewhere near Edinburgh".
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Now I wish I had a better spell chequer than a teacher shouting at me when I was growing up.
I have to ask - was that intentional?
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Now I wish I had a better spell chequer than a teacher shouting at me when I was growing up.
I have to ask - was that intentional?
Sadly, yes. See: http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/SpellingChequer.html [sonoma.edu]
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Yes, I always call it a spell chequer, in honour of the poem "owed to a spell chequer".
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