For a Pessimist, I am Pretty Optimistic

Whenever I’m typing and on a roll, I usually scramble all my letters together. My theory for this is that my mind is always five sentences ahead of my fingers. Or it could just be that I think I have sausages for fingers.

Either way, I am very reliant on dictionaries and spellcheckers. My homepage is www.merriam-webster.com, I have a dictionary/thesaurus widget on the upper right corner of my desktop, and I don’t know what I’d do without MS Word’s red squiggly lines.

But I hate, HATE, doing spell check in my email. The stupid thing either doesn’t recognize a correctly spelled word, or it gives you a million other spellings that you have to scroll through before you get to the right one, or it doesn’t give you the correct spelling at all! Maybe it’s a Yahoo thing…does anyone have this trouble with Gmail?

Here are some of the more recent common misspellings I made and Yahoo’s ridiculous suggestions:

otehr (other) – otter, outer, uteri, OTOH, Oder, Terr, terr, Otes, outré, Torr, Petr, order, otters, outers

mustve (must’ve) – muster, must, musette, mustier, Gustave, musty, musts, mustache, mutative, Mister, mister

motehr (mother) – mote hr, mote-hr, miter, mooter, motet, mote, mater, meter, moder, motor, muter

hahaha (no appropriate spelling) – hardhat, Chihuahua, brouhaha, chihuahua, heehaws, HHS, Hohhot

theres (there’s) – threes, Theresa, Therese, the res, the-res

It’ sdifferent (It’s different) – stiffened, stiffener, stiffeners, stiffen, stiffens, stiffest, sediment, softened, Steffan

ungluing (correct spelling) – angling, uncling, inkling, bungling, ankling, uncoiling, untiling, including, uncurling, engulfing, Angelina

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