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What words have you added to Word's custom dictionary today?
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treestumpcrafty
Getting some practice in, huh?
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I've not added a word to it in at least 10 years, probably over 15.
Why? Because I got into the habit of turning off autocorrect. It's the first thing I do when I set up a word processor (whether new computer or just new software). It's just a terrible cost-benefit; the chance of it catching something I don't automatically catch myself would be less than 0.1% the chance of it misfiring on my large vocabulary. I was on TV once in the finals of a spelling bee; it's rare that I even need to check the spelling of a word, let alone get it confidently wrong.
(I still remember this. For anyone not willing to click the link and/or who doesn't understand it: on SB back in 2010, before CrW took off, Foamy and Squishy were having fun annoying the userbase with eye-searing text colours, so Reaperman - at the time still an active admin, as this was years before the Athene Incident - turned their usernames pink. I, being the court jester I am, corrected Reaperman's spelling in the post in which he declared he'd done it. Reaperman declared that I'd be banned for one day for every spelling or grammar error anyone found in any of my posts. ArchAngel, who hated me for some reason - I legitimately don't know why - decided he'd go through my post history in order to get me banned for ages... but after going through my then-most-recent 400 posts he had only found one instance of the discouraged usage "noone". I didn't get banned; I think Reaperman was impressed. That was definitely after I'd stopped using autocorrect.)
Why? Because I got into the habit of turning off autocorrect. It's the first thing I do when I set up a word processor (whether new computer or just new software). It's just a terrible cost-benefit; the chance of it catching something I don't automatically catch myself would be less than 0.1% the chance of it misfiring on my large vocabulary. I was on TV once in the finals of a spelling bee; it's rare that I even need to check the spelling of a word, let alone get it confidently wrong.
(I still remember this. For anyone not willing to click the link and/or who doesn't understand it: on SB back in 2010, before CrW took off, Foamy and Squishy were having fun annoying the userbase with eye-searing text colours, so Reaperman - at the time still an active admin, as this was years before the Athene Incident - turned their usernames pink. I, being the court jester I am, corrected Reaperman's spelling in the post in which he declared he'd done it. Reaperman declared that I'd be banned for one day for every spelling or grammar error anyone found in any of my posts. ArchAngel, who hated me for some reason - I legitimately don't know why - decided he'd go through my post history in order to get me banned for ages... but after going through my then-most-recent 400 posts he had only found one instance of the discouraged usage "noone". I didn't get banned; I think Reaperman was impressed. That was definitely after I'd stopped using autocorrect.)
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