Comments on: Words that Leopard’s spellchecker chokes on

By: diane frank

diane frank — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:22:18 +0000

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By: kat

kat — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:10:52 +0000

anyone else noticed that the 10.5 calculator is a horror show? just for example, divide 37 by 402. what is this - new math?? (but my widget calculator seems OK.)

By: Partners in Grime

Partners in Grime — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:15:59 +0000

Intended: Ballmer
Suggested: Baller

See? Apple’s got a great sense of humor!

By: Chris Huang

Chris Huang — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:58:47 +0000

Send this to Apple and hopefully they’ll fix it in the next Leopard update.

By: Nick Mediati

Nick Mediati — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:46:27 +0000

@ #10: see #9.

And why would I have the spellchecker remember misspellings?

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:15:41 +0000

I work for a large magazine and our subs (with the help of spellcheck) changed all refernces to Malware in an article to Malaria.

Lucky we picked it up before it went to print.

By: Dont

Dont — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:16:16 +0000

type “dont” and it dont suggest don’t

By: KiL

KiL — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:00:29 +0000

I guess he must have had the spellchecker learn some of his own misspellings previously. Here “instrucitons” proposes to spell it “instructions”
“applicatication” comes up with no suggestions for correction (but it’s marked as misspelled)
“positiove” proposes to spell it “positive”

By: Nick Mediati

Nick Mediati — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:10:32 +0000

I got the so-called correction for “Inc.” but “Hell” was recognized as being correct. Bizarre.

And fwiw, I tested this using a fresh user account too. Since each user has their own custom spelling dictionary, it shouldn’t carry over even if “positionve” was in my custom dictionary (which it wasn’t).

By: appleforapple.com » Mac 101: spell check errors

appleforapple.com » Mac 101: spell check errors — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:09:32 +0000

[...] a funny post at The Apple Blog today that points out a few typos that give Mac OS X Leopard’s built-in spell checker a bit [...]

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:54:28 +0000

I get the same problems as Nick. I tested it in text edit. ‘lol’ should be marked as misspelled, but the suggestion loll makes no sense (I get that suggestion also.) Though, I do not get the same results that Jon and Gorm got. Hell and Inc. are not shown as misspelled on my computer.

By: Kevin Neal

Kevin Neal — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:34:25 +0000

Funny, but this simply isn’t true!
instrucitons gives me instructions
applicatication gives me no guesses
positiove gives me positive

This article = FAIL

By: Mac 101: spell check errors | Mac Newsly | The place to be for Macintosh information

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:59:58 +0000

[...] a funny post at The Apple Blog today that points out a few typos that give Mac OS X Leopard’s built-in spell checker a bit [...]

By: John

John — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:44:35 +0000

I heard on the radio recently that some high school put the year book through the spell checker before sending it to press. Of course, the names got horribly mangled. Dumb to do that and not check the results.

By: Mac 101: spell check errors | Apple,iPhone,Mac,iPod

Mac 101: spell check errors | Apple,iPhone,Mac,iPod — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:14:15 +0000

[...] a funny post at The Apple Blog today that points out a few typos that give Mac OS X Leopard’s built-in spell checker a bit [...]

By: Gorm

Gorm — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:48:14 +0000

Intended: Hell
Suggested: He’ll

Sometimes you just want to say “It was funny as hell” or something similarly quick, but it almost always comes out wrong and everyone wonder who “he” is.

By: camron flanders

camron flanders — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:45:12 +0000

I’m pretty sure these are words in your custom dictionary, not the stock dictionary. to check, clear your custom dictionary ( I think you can do this from the settings/general menu).

I don’t have those problems with mine, atleast. Remember, it learns words you type a lot and adds them.

By: Didier

Didier — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:41:27 +0000

lol is not standard English right now so it will be marked as misspelled.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:13:00 +0000

Inc.

Intended: Inc.
Suggested: Inc.

That’s my current most annoying spellchecker issue.

-jon

By: smooshipantz

smooshipantz — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:09:54 +0000

lol

Intended word: lol

Suggested: loll, lola