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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>🎙️ **Spelling Says a Lot (Part 1)**</p><p>"_In this episode, we examine how English spelling reformers described the pronunciation of English in the early 1600s, and we also explore how Modern English spellings reflect the phonetic history of words._"</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2025/07/15/episode-184-spelling-says-a-lot-part-1/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">historyofenglishpodcast.com/20</span><span class="invisible">25/07/15/episode-184-spelling-says-a-lot-part-1/</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Audio</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Podcast</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spelling</span></a></p>
jabsonik<p>”Failed”? This experimental <a href="https://ihan.outo.la/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://ihan.outo.la/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a> from the 60s is instantly quite readable to any Finn:</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/06/1960s-schools-experiment-created-new-alphabet-thousands-children-unable-to-spell" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/education/2025</span><span class="invisible">/jul/06/1960s-schools-experiment-created-new-alphabet-thousands-children-unable-to-spell</span></a></p><p>' It used to baffle me – how could this person, who races through multiple books a week and can quote Shakespeare faultlessly, possibly think “me” is spelt with two Es? '</p><p>Dunno... maybe because that's how you pronounce it? :-P That's how _we_ do it here in <a href="https://ihan.outo.la/tags/Finland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Finland</span></a> anyway. WYSIWYG spelling FTW!</p>
pngwen<p>Whoever decided that the plural of "zero" is "zeros" and not "zeroes" has caused me no end of trouble when writing numpy code. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/numpy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>numpy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a></p>
Klaus Stein<p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a> still manages to surprise me all the time. Especially with choosing “c” or “s” or “z”¹ in places for the basically same pronunciation (similarly with “ou” vs “u” (or “o”) and “e” vs “i”).</p><p>Trying to correct the spelling regularly gets me more confused ;-)</p><p>__<br>¹ok, and differences between US and UK</p>
Swede’s Photographs<p>Good morning. 😴⏰☕</p><p>10 June 2025</p><p>Nobody nose—nobody knows! Fun with homophones or just a bit of confusion? Maybe a little of both. I'm not really going anywhere with this, just rambling. Ever find yourself typing the wrong word, like "here" instead of "hear," even though you know better? I do it all the time—especially when thinking fast. Proofreading definitely pays off, and autocorrect usually saves the day.</p><p>Funny how we've come to depend on things without even realizing it. Back in the '70s, autocorrect was just a dictionary—and maybe a little bottle of "white-out." Yes, way back when we were still dragging our knuckles on the ground.</p><p>"Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries eventually reflect popular choices." – David Crystal</p><p>"A pun is the lowest form of humor—unless you thought of it first." – Oscar Levan</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photo</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/photographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photographer</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/photographylovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photographylovers</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/morning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>morning</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flowers</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/homophones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homophones</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a></p>
Asterix<p>Ik kan me doodergeren aan <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/taalfouten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taalfouten</span></a> in de professionele context, zeker in deze tijden waarin er ingebouwde spellingscontroles, browserextensies als <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LanguageTool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LanguageTool</span></a> (<a href="https://languagetool.org/nl" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">languagetool.org/nl</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>), online woordenlijsten (<a href="https://woordenlijst.org" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">woordenlijst.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>) en <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> tools (Copilot, Perplexity ...) bestaan.</p><p>Dan zijn er zoveel hulpmiddelen, zie je nog dingen staan als "geef uw email adres op" of "beleid voorbereidend overleg". 😤</p><p>Geef een boost als je correcte spelling belangrijk vindt!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NederlandseTaal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NederlandseTaal</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a></p>
Mark A. Rayner<p>It's so exciting when I get to unwaprd a package I've been waiting for!</p><p>Proofreading: it matters!</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/typo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>typo</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/typos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>typos</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/proofreading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>proofreading</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/editing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>editing</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humour</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/fargileItMustBeItalian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fargileItMustBeItalian</span></a></p>
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar<p>This concrete vibrator is protable!</p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/AliExpress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AliExpress</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spelling</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Concrete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Concrete</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Vibrator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vibrator</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Tools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tools</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DIY</span></a></p>
Lydia Conwell :mastodon:<p><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/WritingTips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingTips</span></a> </p><p>There are lots of tips for <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a> about do this and don't do that, but one thing that is very important is to be aware of homophones.</p><p>There and Their are common ones but there are actually a lot more (depending on your accent) than you might first realise.</p><p>course/coarse, hanger/hangar, led/lead, etc.</p><p>It's so very easy to miss these, even if you know the correct spelling.</p><p>Not only that, there are also words of similar spelling that mean very different things. I posted a toot the other day about the words Torturous and Tortuous. But there are also things like Tentative and Attentive.</p><p>And stupid spellcheck won't spot any of these!</p><p>Stupid spellcheck.</p><p><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spelling</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/SpellingMistakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpellingMistakes</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Spellcheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spellcheck</span></a></p>
Fell<p>Is there a Firefox add-on that could help me learn proper use of commas?</p><p>I think commas are used differently in German and English but I'm always unsure. A little add-on making suggestions would be great.</p><p><a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/Addon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Addon</span></a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/Browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Browser</span></a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/Extension" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extension</span></a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/Grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grammar</span></a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/Punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Punctuation</span></a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>German</span></a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/Spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spelling</span></a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/AskFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AskFedi</span></a></p>
BobDevney<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> </p><p>Beloved Tor editor Teresa Nielsen Hayden once wrote about interviewing candidates for publishing jobs. If they could spell "accommodate," they might make good copy editors.</p><p>Decades ago, after fumbling it myself, I asked 30 other experts how to spell the word. All my fellow marketing writers plus managers, editors, tech writers, etc., in the corporate communications office where I worked. Only 1 person — a lowly (but beloved) typist — got it right.</p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Words</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spelling</span></a> <a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/Publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Publishing</span></a></p>
Paco Hope #resist<p>It. Is. Already. Plural. </p><p>(And I expected the Staff door to say “Staffs” or even “Staves”)<br><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grammar</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a></p>
Third spruce tree on the left<p>Grammarly: we miss you! Did you take a writing break? </p><p>me: it's not you, it's my new IT department won't allow <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Grammarly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grammarly</span></a> and Microsoft Editor sucks donkey balls; I guess having proper <a href="https://mas.to/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a>, grammar and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/punctuation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>punctuation</span></a> in our product <a href="https://mas.to/tags/documentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>documentation</span></a> isn't a priority here at InniTrobe.</p>
Hiisikoloart<p>Whenever I write text lines to my comic, I start staring at words with utter confusion; I feel like I can never be sure how things are spelled and if I am using the right sentence structure.</p><p>Then I try to remind myself that people will tell me if I spelled something absolutely wrong...and it mainly matters that people get the idea.</p><p>I am not perfect, and even native speakers (English) get stuff wrong all the time. :P</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/webcomic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webcomic</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>artist</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a></p>
ShouldBeGaminButDoomscrollin<p>RT appreciated because this is a major life quality issue: the lack of spell checkers for Samsung tablet. </p><p>I use a Samsung Galaxy S9+ Tab (I strongly recommend against ever getting a Samsung device, for many reasons. Happy to elaborate further). This specific one doesn't have inbuilt spellchecker, confirmed with the Samsung support who fluffed around for ages before admitting only some models have it, you can't know unless if you bought this specific tablet, then blamed me for not doing research. </p><p>Firefox has completely disabled all Android spellcheckers, both inbuilt and extension. </p><p>I think what's happening now, is we are being forced to use the online ones that comes with monthly subscription that also sells your work to LLM training models. </p><p>I'm not a native English speaker. I'm also dyslexic. </p><p>Anyone found any ways around this? While I'd like to never use Microsoft Office Suit, at this point it seems like Microsoft is the least evil out of all the major players. </p><p>Anyone found a way of bypassing this? (Do not ask me to google it, google has fallen as a search engine for at least five years now, it's all SEO based irrelevant spam regardless of what your search term is). </p><p><a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spelling</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/NESB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NESB</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Dyslexia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dyslexia</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Spellcheck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spellcheck</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Spell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spell</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Check" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Check</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/spellchecker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spellchecker</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/checker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>checker</span></a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Samsung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Samsung</span></a></p>
FunHouse Radio<p>► <a href="https://FunHouseRadio.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">FunHouseRadio.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meme</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>memes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/sign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/pork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pork</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/groceries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>groceries</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/meat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/fail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fail</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a></p>
AI6YR Ben<p>How is pre-existing not in the Firefox (Linux?) dictionary, but pee-existing is? 🤔<a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a></p>
Sjaak K. 🇳🇱🇪🇺<p>Spelling. Zoooo jaren zeventig.<br><a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/taal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taal</span></a></p>
Tim Richards<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.allrite.at/@allrite" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>allrite</span></a></span> I noticed nearly all the typos in the first book were homophones, eg lightening &gt; lightning, straight &gt; strait, breaks &gt; brakes, etc. Spellcheck is no good for those.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a></p>
Tim Richards<p>Just sent the author of two travel narrative books a list of typos to fix. Is that too presumptuous? They're great reads, but would be better if 'lightening' was correctly spelled 'lightning' etc. </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spelling</span></a></p>