Just wanted to let you know that several simple words are underlined as wrong, but they actually exist, such as:
- towards
- amongst
I don't know whether this is a Scrivener problem, but just in case...
Spellcheck[BUG LOGGED]
9 posts
Page 1 of 1
-
mightygitis
- Posts: 236
- Joined: Tue Oct 26, 2010 3:46 am
- Platform: Windows
- Location: Hampton Roads
- Contact:
I knew towards was a word! I changed it to toward and it didn't feel right. Alas, I'll change it in edits later.
I am running Scrivener Beta 1.4 onWindows XP Home Edition w/ Service Pack 3 installed on a Acer Aspire One netbook computer. I am also running it on Windows Vista Home Basic on a Dell Inspiron E1405 laptop.
Check the Bug List before you post!
Check the Bug List before you post!
-
fancypantschinchillafa
- Posts: 2
- Joined: Tue Oct 26, 2010 3:05 am
- Platform: Windows
I'm also discovering that spell check does not agree with the words "grey" and "okay".
-
merriehaskellme
- Posts: 1
- Joined: Sun Nov 14, 2010 1:23 am
- Platform: Windows
The spellcheck doesn't recognize an entire word in the case of "hadn't." It points at "dn't" to tell me that's not a word, but doesn't seem to notice the "ha" appended to the beginning of it.
-
jtranter
- Posts: 99
- Joined: Thu Oct 15, 2009 6:00 am
- Platform: Mac
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Contact:
"Towards" is often used, and I use it all the time, though "toward" is supposed to be "more correct".
I would tend to avoid "amongst" because "among" means exactly the same thing and is simpler; and that often means "less pretentious".
The same goes for "whilst"... why not say "while"?
As for "okay", I once (twenty years ago) had an all-day argument with a fellow editor about that. Technically, the capital letters "O" and "K" are historically correct: the political party of Martin Van Buren used "OK!" as a political rallying cry two hundred years ago, as "OK" stood as an abbreviation for "Old Kinderhook", Van Buren's country residence.
But the word has been part of normal English for so long that I feel it should be spelled (not "spelt": that's a kind of primitive wheat grain) like any other English word, i.e. as "okay"; otherwise in print it looks as though someone was shouting the word "ok" (rhymes with "wok") at the top of their voice. For example, someone might say "Sure, right, fine, okay... do what you like."
In English usage, things gradually change, and that's okay. It used to be a criminal offence to say "lunch" when "luncheon" was what you meant; and these days the English "make a sandwich" while their American cousins "fix a sandwich". An American might say to an Englishman "I fixed myself a sandwich this morning." The Englishman might reply "Why, was it broken?"
best
JT
I would tend to avoid "amongst" because "among" means exactly the same thing and is simpler; and that often means "less pretentious".
The same goes for "whilst"... why not say "while"?
As for "okay", I once (twenty years ago) had an all-day argument with a fellow editor about that. Technically, the capital letters "O" and "K" are historically correct: the political party of Martin Van Buren used "OK!" as a political rallying cry two hundred years ago, as "OK" stood as an abbreviation for "Old Kinderhook", Van Buren's country residence.
But the word has been part of normal English for so long that I feel it should be spelled (not "spelt": that's a kind of primitive wheat grain) like any other English word, i.e. as "okay"; otherwise in print it looks as though someone was shouting the word "ok" (rhymes with "wok") at the top of their voice. For example, someone might say "Sure, right, fine, okay... do what you like."
In English usage, things gradually change, and that's okay. It used to be a criminal offence to say "lunch" when "luncheon" was what you meant; and these days the English "make a sandwich" while their American cousins "fix a sandwich". An American might say to an Englishman "I fixed myself a sandwich this morning." The Englishman might reply "Why, was it broken?"
best
JT
John Tranter
2010 iMac, 4Gb 1076 MHz RAM, 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Filco Tenkeyless (Brown Cherry switches) keyboard (Clicketty click!)
2010 iMac, 4Gb 1076 MHz RAM, 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Filco Tenkeyless (Brown Cherry switches) keyboard (Clicketty click!)
-
mightygitis
- Posts: 236
- Joined: Tue Oct 26, 2010 3:46 am
- Platform: Windows
- Location: Hampton Roads
- Contact:
merriehaskell wrote:The spellcheck doesn't recognize an entire word in the case of "hadn't." It points at "dn't" to tell me that's not a word, but doesn't seem to notice the "ha" appended to the beginning of it.
Have you updated to Beta 1.3 yet? This was fixed in 1.2 I thought.
I am running Scrivener Beta 1.4 onWindows XP Home Edition w/ Service Pack 3 installed on a Acer Aspire One netbook computer. I am also running it on Windows Vista Home Basic on a Dell Inspiron E1405 laptop.
Check the Bug List before you post!
Check the Bug List before you post!
-
benlovejoybe
- Posts: 97
- Joined: Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:28 am
- Platform: Mac
The main bug I found with spellcheck is that learn spelling only works for the current session: as soon as you exit scrivener and open it again, it flags all the words previously added.
"Hadn't" seems to greatly confuse it in that it wants to capitalise the word.
"Hadn't" seems to greatly confuse it in that it wants to capitalise the word.
-
KerylRaistKe
- Posts: 3
- Joined: Mon Jan 10, 2011 2:48 am
- Platform: Windows
benlovejoy wrote:The main bug I found with spellcheck is that learn spelling only works for the current session: as soon as you exit scrivener and open it again, it flags all the words previously added.
"Hadn't" seems to greatly confuse it in that it wants to capitalise the word.
I'm also having this problem with Beta version 1.5. It learns the words. You save. You exit. You come back, and all the learned words are gone.
Page 1 of 1