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Google Helps Me With Spelling

by Anne Wayman on June 28th, 2005

I can’t be the only one who uses google when I get confused about spelling. And I get confused often ‘ in fact, my spelling is highly creative.

I don’t remember when, but a while back google began to offer alternatives when I enter a creatively spelled search term. For example, I just wanted to use the word ‘journaled.’ Word doesn’t like it at all and offers only the present tense. But I was talking about a journal that I wrote sometime in the past. (It’s probably some pluperfect use or other arcane grammar term that I simply refuse to learn.) So I put journaled into google and it confirmed that spelling.

Is google the last word when it comes to spelling? Of course not! But it’s a handy, quick tool when you’re stuck.

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