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Am I a bitch or what? I just emailed the news director of my local television news station because the headline of the evening, both online and television broadcast was misspelled.

Lots of people think we in the South are uneducated and illiterate. Great! Now our local news station is endorsing that because someone doesn't know how to use spellcheck. It peevs me to no end! :mad:
 
Free cookies! to whoever is brave enough to point out to the lovely sprinkles that she's missing an 'e' in 'peeves'... :rose:
 
snowy ciara said:
Free cookies! to whoever is brave enough to point out to the lovely sprinkles that she's missing an 'e' in 'peeves'... :rose:
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:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: OMG, I'm sooooooooo embarrassed.

that's what I get for being so bitchy, isn't it?

lol.
 
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Sprinkles22 said:
:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: OMG, I'm sooooooooo embarrassed.

that's what I get for being so bitchy, isn't it?

lol.
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It makes me nuts too, though! I've been known to fire off poison pixel letters to the evening news too. You know what really gets me though? It's the mangled grammar I hear on the news. "I can has cheezburger?" is cute when it's a LOLcat, but when I hear a newscaster say something like "The Boy Scouts has ordered new badges for" whatever it was they ordered them for last night, I just want to make them them conjugate verbs for a few pages. "Boys Scouts" is PLURAL. It's "The Boy Scouts HAVE ordered...."

Anyway, I'm sorry I teased. There's an old Usenet law that "every post that points out a typo or grammar error has one of it's own." Which reminds me, I better spell check this before I hit "submit". :D

Is it "spellcheck" or "spell check". I thought it was the first but ieSpell says it's the second.
 
snowy ciara said:
... Anyway, I'm sorry I teased. There's an old Usenet law that "every post that points out a typo or grammar error has one of it's own." Which reminds me, I better spell check this before I hit "submit". :D

Is it "spellcheck" or "spell check". I thought it was the first but ieSpell says it's the second.
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"... one of its own." "It's" = "It is." "Its" = "belonging to it."
"... submit." and
"... spell check?" Punctuation (period, comma, question mark, et al.) goes to the left of the quotation mark except in extremely rare circumstances.

ETA: "Spell check" is the currently preferred usage, though I can easily see it becoming a compound word in the not-too-distant future. "Spellchecker" and "spell checker) (as a noun) are both currently used, and I foresee the compound form becoming the acceptable usage unless those who are using it as a product name manage to secure a trademark ruling in their favor. That's rather unlikely at this point (if it hasn't been done previously) since it's already relatively commonly used as a common (as opposed to proper) noun.
 
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Sir_Winston54 said:
"... one of its own." "It's" = "It is." "Its" = "belonging to it."
"... submit." and
"... spell check?" Punctuation (period, comma, question mark, et al.) goes to the left of the quotation mark except in extremely rare circumstances.

ETA: "Spell check" is the currently preferred usage, though I can easily see it becoming a compound word in the not-too-distant future. "Spellchecker" and "spell checker) (as a noun) are both currently used, and I foresee the compound form becoming the acceptable usage unless those who are using it as a product name manage to secure a trademark ruling in their favor. That's rather unlikely at this point (if it hasn't been done previously) since it's already relatively commonly used as a common (as opposed to proper) noun.
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Yep, got me on the "it's" but I'm pretty sure that the terminal punctuation on the right and left of the quotes was appropriate in this case. I double checked with the grammar book we use for our students (not that that's saying much, but still.) and it looks correct. It also passed the grammar checker in Word and open office. (I just checked it.)

I looked it up in "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" because Ms. Truss states it much better than I can.

Eats said:
The basic rule is straightforward and logical: when the punctuation relates to the quoted words, it goes inside the inverted commas; when it relates to the sentence, it goes on the outside. Unless of course, you are in America.
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I'm not in America. ;)

Since the period here:
Me said:
Which reminds me, I better spell check this before I hit "submit".
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refers to the sentence as a whole, and not the word "submit" by itself, the punctuation goes on the outside of the quotes. Yes, it is a UK convention and not a US convention, but it's more common in my area (Canada) to see it this way. I think it's important to remember on sites like Lit that our posters come from all over so some grammar conventions will vary. My spelling has become somewhat Americanized after I had lived there for a few years, but my grammar is almost always UK convention. Weird, I know. :D

This reminds me of a thread I had to close on the writing board I moderate. There was a debate going on about UK conventions vs US conventions. The Brits and the Americans were going at it hammer and tongs, the Australians were drinking beer and running a betting pool on various aspects of the debate and doing humorous commentary, and the Canadians were trying to smooth things down. I finally locked it before it became an out and out flame war. ;) It started out as a question about why an author had used the "our" convention in the word "colour" but not in the word "flavour". The OP and author worked it out to their satisfaction but then the dead horse floggers, pedants and rabble rousers showed up.
 
Sir_Winston54 said:
"... one of its own." "It's" = "It is." "Its" = "belonging to it."
"... submit." and
"... spell check?" Punctuation (period, comma, question mark, et al.) goes to the left of the quotation mark except in extremely rare circumstances.

ETA: "Spell check" is the currently preferred usage, though I can easily see it becoming a compound word in the not-too-distant future. "Spellchecker" and "spell checker) (as a noun) are both currently used, and I foresee the compound form becoming the acceptable usage unless those who are using it as a product name manage to secure a trademark ruling in their favor. That's rather unlikely at this point (if it hasn't been done previously) since it's already relatively commonly used as a common (as opposed to proper) noun.
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http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b143/zamar_stitch/383-Swirly.jpg
 
Alas! I have punctuated the thread into a standstill! :( And now there's no-one to share my cookies with.
 
semi fascinating = balancing my chequebook instead of punctuating... I wish I could balance my budget the way the feds do. I mean, if I spent THAT much more than I was bringing in, they'd have my cute lil butt in jail. (That's the fascinating part, btw.)
 
snowy ciara said:
semi fascinating = balancing my chequebook instead of punctuating... I wish I could balance my budget the way the feds do. I mean, if I spent THAT much more than I was bringing in, they'd have my cute lil butt in jail. (That's the fascinating part, btw.)
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: chuckles : Hook , line & sinker :cool:

Normally Fu pounces comments like that.
 
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