Is there any way to customize the spell-check a little?

July 16, 2002 11:44 PM

This is really more of a nit, but a nit is a little tiny bug, I guess .... Is there any way to customize the spell-check a little? I'm getting really tired of seeing Mafia every time I spellcheck MeFi.
posted by anastasiav to Bugs at 11:44 PM (22 comments total)

Hey, you ain't seein' nuthin'... now get outta here!
posted by geoff. at 11:59 PM on July 16, 2002

What's even more scary is that you see parishioner when you spell-check stavrosthewonderchicken
posted by dg at 12:12 AM on July 17, 2002

excellent.

henceforth I shall be known as greaseproof !
posted by Frasermoo at 12:33 AM on July 17, 2002

the second option for miguelcardoso is inculcator

methinks this spell-checker is some kind of oracle.
posted by vacapinta at 12:35 AM on July 17, 2002

The bug thread has disappeared for me, but the spell checker hangs in XP home, IE 6.0.
posted by scottymac at 1:20 AM on July 17, 2002

Should have said, works fine in Opera, 6.02.
posted by scottymac at 1:21 AM on July 17, 2002

mathowie:
methodize, nationalize

dhartung:
darting, charting, dating, hating, heartburn, farting

BlueTrain:
blueprint, blustering, bluer, blurring, quatrain

ljromanoff:
frogman, juryman, aroma, alderman, groan, Trojan, jargon

ParisParamus:
prosperous, angiospermous, aristocrats, partisan, peripherals, periphrasis

(for the hell of it) dubya: Dubai, dub, dumb, dumbly, Durban, daub, drub, Cuba, duty, unbar


Jesus, this is fun! Oracle indeed. . .
posted by crasspastor at 2:57 AM on July 17, 2002

*sigh* ColdChef=cliche
posted by ColdChef at 6:37 AM on July 17, 2002

I think you've invented a MetaGame crasspastor!
crassest, crispest,cassius,castrator,crass,crosspatch
posted by Tarrama at 6:51 AM on July 17, 2002

Yay! I even got to learn two new words.
Malthusian, aphelion, mulligan, mapping, mashing, aphasia (now that IS odd, since aphasic.com is my url)
posted by malphigian at 7:24 AM on July 17, 2002

mlang = retard?

looks like somebody already did a bit of customization.

p.s. coldchef: that is hilarious.
posted by mlang at 8:04 AM on July 17, 2002

Iain Banks' Complicity has a character who delights with his interminable "Hey! Guess what the spellchecker says about ____?"

Good times. Good times.
posted by Kafkaesque at 8:49 AM on July 17, 2002

i spotted this 2nd day of the new spell checker. even mentioned it in MeTa. maybe i should become a posting fool as well as the garden variety commenting kind.
posted by clavdivs at 8:54 AM on July 17, 2002

me3dia= me3dia, Medina, mediad, medial, median, mediacy... not all that interesting. Oh well.
posted by me3dia at 9:22 AM on July 17, 2002

clavdivs=cloddish, caddish, and...ladies?

That's hardly fair.
posted by ColdChef at 9:25 AM on July 17, 2002

marquis = marquis
um.

oh well.
posted by Marquis at 9:30 AM on July 17, 2002

For some reason, it didn't occur to me that Kafkaesque is a real word.
posted by ColdChef at 9:32 AM on July 17, 2002

odiv = diva?

*scrolls down*

Odin... that's better, not like I couldn't see it coming. I'm just surprised it's on the bottom.
posted by ODiV at 11:16 AM on July 17, 2002

insomnyuk- ignominy, kinswoman, kinswomen, insomnia, Winston, kinsman, kinsmen, winsomely, insomniac, simony, Kingston, bison, linesman.

I shall henceforth refer to myself as 'winsome Winston, kinsman of Kingston'

crasspastor- crassest, crispest, cassias, castrator, crass, crosspatch, raspiest, castigator, croissant

That's too good...
posted by insomnyuk at 11:49 AM on July 17, 2002

I like "hubcap" or "hibachi"; I'm not too sure about either "hebe" or "hobo", though.
posted by yhbc at 12:05 PM on July 17, 2002

Apparently monju_bosatsu translates roughly as bloated monk. Hmmm... Not entirely inappropriate. It's either that or bobcat menu.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 12:20 PM on July 17, 2002

skomsvold=somebody.

So I am. Finally.
posted by KevinSkomsvold at 12:36 PM on July 17, 2002