Not giving myself enough credit...

[deacsoft]

... for spelling words correctly.

I find myself always having dictionary.com up when I'm posting on 2+2. What may be worse is that 99% of the words I check dictionary.com for the correct spelling are already correct. I'm fairly certain that at a point in my younger years I was a horrible speller. Now, for some reason, I feel the need to double check every word that I'm not 100% certain of for the correct spelling. And as I said, most of them are right anyway. Does anyone else do this? And secondly, why the hell should I care? I'm just posting on the forums. It's not like I'm competing in some spelling bee on ESPN against a bunch of 11 year olds.

[asofel]

Its competeing dude...

<font color="white">jk</font>

[TimM]

Don't use dictionary.com.

Get this instead.

Get FireFox and download the Spellbound extension. Just right click any word and see if it spelled correctly! I cant spell for crap but you would never know! Now they just need a grammar checker....

[man]

one word I can never spell correctly is privilege (sp?). boy that mother [censored] is elusive.

[asofel]

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one word I can never spell correctly is privilege (sp?). boy that mother [censored] is elusive.

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that's hilarious. i'm a pretty good speller and i always have to type it out "privilege" (like right then i leaned in,, thought for a sec, and it looked good...)

[InchoateHand]

So this is a thread where we are supposed to give you more credit?

Confused,
Me

[deacsoft]

I guess I'm just wondering if I'm alone out there.

[InchoateHand]

No, you aren't alone. I also double-check words that are correct. I like erring on this side though.

I find it amusing and somewhat disconcerting when I write a word numerous times and it starts to look like its spelled incorrectly, even if its obviously spelled correctly.

Is there a name for the phenomenon(had to spellcheck that beast)?