10-05-15 05:27 Joe Mackey wrote to Ed Vance about Dictionaries (was: Re: Ru
Howdy! Joe,

 JM> {at}MSGID: 
 JM>   Nancy wrote --

 NB>>> I'm using an old-fashioned hard-cover paper-pages book.. ;)  A
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 EV> WordWeb is a Offline Dictionary/Thesaurus.

 JM>    I have several.  The main one is a hard back Webster's New
 JM> Collegiate. Another is a paperback Webster's New Expanded and
 JM> one I use the most is Webster's New World Misspeller's
 JM> Dictionary.  That is handy since is spells how the word sounds
 JM> and gives the correct spelling.

Is the book called "Hooked On PHONICS?     He he he he.

 JM>   There are times I can't remember how to spell something I
 JM> seldom use and will use the spill chicken trying various
 JM> combinations of how I think its spelt.

A man at work liked doing Cross-Word Puzzles, and occasionally I'd
look over His shoulders and suggest a word to go in a section of the
puzzle.

After our work place got a computer that had a Word Processor program
in it, I suggested He try using the Spell Checker on the computer to
get the correct spelling of some words He needed to fill in the
Cross-Word Puzzle He was working on.

Sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't.

I remember us trying to figure out how to spell the word facetious by
starting with the letter P on the computer, it was a long while before
we found it, and we may had found it in the Dictionary that was in the
desk drawer at work.

Some times I thought of using the computer to type a word in that sort
of meant the same thing as the word we were looking for, and use the
Spell Checker to see what Synonyms it would show us.

Ed


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