Mastodawn

If you write about entomology, Haberski and Silva 2026 have compiled a downloadable dictionary that you can import into your spellchecker. I successfully loaded it into my Mac's dictionary (active upon restart). This link has instructions for using in Microsoft Word. #entomology #insects #spelling #science #bugs https://github.com/ahaberski/SpellingBee/tree/main

GitHub - ahaberski/SpellingBee: A dictionary of entomological terms to improve word processor spellcheck

A dictionary of entomological terms to improve word processor spellcheck - ahaberski/SpellingBee

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A Joke A Day 2d ago

Beauty Parlour

I think I’ll start a beauty parlor promoted as “By bad spellers for poor readers.”

I’ll call it Heredressers.

#AucklandComedy #BeautyParlour #Comedy #NZComedy #Spelling

Quasit Mar 27

Why do so many people have difficulty differentiating "breath" and "breathe"? One is a noun, the other a verb. You take a breath; that's how you breathe. It's really not complicated!

#Grammar #English #Spelling #

Philosophics Mar 24

Although I am easily distracted, it is never for nought. Today, I've been thinking of the orthography and morphology of Parsifal whilst trying to decide which version to run with.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/parsifals-drifting-name?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

My first 'real' encounter with Perceval was Chrétien de Troyes' unfinished version, but Wagner's version seems to have stuck with me.

#bliog #philosophy #language #spelling #variation #substack #writing #linguistics #orthography #morphology #Parsifal #FisherKing

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Stan Carey Mar 24

"Ethology" referring to the study of animal behaviour is about a century old and was (somewhat) popularized through the work of Niko Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz, which is where I first saw it.

But it never quite caught on. Even now, as de Waal writes, spell-checkers "regularly change it to ethnology, etiology, or even theology".

#ethology #terminology #spelling #AnimalBehavior #research

RmDebArc_5 Mar 24

If life gives you demons...

Naty Mar 21

New #blog on #BurgeonLab ✍️

➡️ https://burgeonlab.com/blog/free-private-offline-spell-check-proofreader-languagetool/

I don't know why I haven't writen about my #LanguageTool setup before; it's one of my favourite open source softwares. If you want to get a free and private & offline #spelling #grammar checker and proof reading app, this is your guide (for macOS, should be similar on Linux).

If you have any feedback/questions, let me know!

#blogging #blogs #guides #newpost #blogpost #smolweb #techblog #techguides #foss #openSource #privacy #selfhosting

Offline LanguageTool: Free Open Source Grammarly Alternative

Learn how to set up LanguageTool's offline server mode on macOS, to get an unlimited Basic tier for a free, fully offline, private grammar & spell checker.

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