Further to our last

[shewhomust]

I find Dreamwidth's spell-checker very helpful, in spotlighting at least some of my many typos. I very rarely take its advice in correcting them, though. For one thing, it wants me to use US spelling. For another, it struggles with proper names. Here's what it has just suggested as alternatives to 'Bellowhead':

Bellow head, Bellow-head, Bellowed, Bullhead, Blowhard, Billowed, Wellhead, Bellied, Behead, Blockhead, Bullheads, Bullhead's

It didn't recognise Vindolanda or Gateshead, either, and I was going to say that its suggested alternatives were less inventive, but looking again, while 'Wonderland' for Vindolanda has a certain logic, confronted with Gateshead it just gets silly:

Stashed, Guested, Gusseted, Gusted, Starched, Gestated, Stitched, Gestured, Gazetted, Quested, Dustsheet, Mustached, Cosseted

Comments

[cmcmck]

This is why I tend to turn such things orf!!

[shewhomust]

You're a more accurate typist than I am! And look at the entertainment you are missing!

[sovay]

Dustsheet, Mustached, Cosseted

I don't think I knew until this minute that Dreamwidth had a spellchecker. I'm not very impressed with it!