FR Spellcheck Contractions

Me | 4/5/07 | Me

[conservative in nyc]

Has anyone noticed that the Free Republic spellcheck function isn't recognizing some contractions as spelled correctly?

[conservative in nyc]

I don't understand this - "don't" and "I'm" are shown as spelled correctly, but many other contractions aren't. That shouldn't be. But I'm sure some FReepers couldn't care less,since they don't use spellcheck. Ain't that a shame?

[cripplecreek]

I’s two ignern’t ta notice.

[Chi-townChief]

Good thing I don’t make mistakes.

[Esther Ruth]

Is this the correct spelling for these three below?

didn’t
hadn’t
isn’t

[conservative in nyc]

All three of those show up as spelled incorrectly when I spell check them, for some reason. “I’m”, “don’t” and “can’t” work, probably because “I”, “don” and “can” are actual words.

I don’t remember this being an issue until the past month or so.

[ThomasThomas]

spellcheck dose not like spellcheck

[conservative in nyc]

spellcheck dose not like spellcheck

Probably because spell check is two words, not one. I misspelled spell check because spell check isn't available for original posts.

I really need the spell check function.

[Esther Ruth]

Someone somewhere perhaps did a study and found out a good portion of folks can’t remember where to put that do-dad thingy and so they are at this very moment, as we speak, attempting to make contractions obsolete worldwide. It’s for the children. They’ll have more time to learn more important global citizenship stuff.

[NonValueAdded]

Halp us, Jon Karry, fix thee spell checkr.

[MHGinTN]

Seen the following at FR lately?...

they're / their /there

whose / who's

you're / your

[conservative in nyc]

Well, if it is for the children, I will not use contractions. It is a good thing that the Free Republic spell checker is not recognizing contractions as words if it is for the children. After all, it is for the children.

[LongElegantLegs]

Like bain’t, tha’r and fo'sachee? Yeah, I get that too.

[Goldie Lurks]

Happens all the time when fingers are flying across the keyboard.

Contractions and homonyms are the buggars in the English language.

Spell check off.

[Shimmer128]

Right, we need Grammar check on here!

[Goldie Lurks]

Grammar check is off when the pajama patrol is on duty.

[John Robinson]

Ah, the recent change to add typographer’s marks has come back to haunt me. The spell check doesn’t like the curly quotes. Hm. I’ll see what can be done about that.

[John Robinson]

Ouch, double-encoded UTF-8. I hate Unicode. :-(

[Eva]

I noticed it yesterday, then today it told me that Freeper wasn’t a word. I just ignored it.

[conservative in nyc]

Thanks for your work here.