How do you spell?

Discussion in 'Linguistics' started by alexb123, Nov 13, 2009.

  1. alexb123 The Amish web page is fast! Valued Senior Member

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    Serck?

    As in 'he shecked his responsibility'?

    I'm lost on this even with spell checker, any help would be great

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  3. one_raven God is a Chinese Whisper Valued Senior Member

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    Shirk.

    If you don't have spell check, just put the word in Google.
     
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  7. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    Google will try valiantly to fix one wrong letter or transposition (and it will do more than that if it's the name of somebody or something famous) but it can't handle a very intricate misspelling, especially of a very short word. Google "Sheck" and you'll find a company by that name, followed by "Did you mean SHREK?" These days corporations, bands and other organizations choose deliberately misspelled words as their names, so people will be able to find them easily using Google.

    I would suggest selecting a close synonym and typing it into Thesaurus.com . It will give you back a list of close synonyms, and, hopefully, your word will be on it. (If it's not, maybe you're using it wrong.

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    My first try was "evade" and "shirk" was right there on the list in alphabetical order.
     
  8. alexb123 The Amish web page is fast! Valued Senior Member

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    Frag I've said it before and I'll say it again you are a genius, very good idea

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  9. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    Thanks, I'll send you my bill.

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