Silly Spellchecker

I type many of my posts on my BlackBerry. It's a convenient way to capture an idea as it occurs,  or record a news item from the paper that has in some way inspired a spanking thought. But I never realized that the built-in spellchecker function doesn't seem to recognize the word "spankings". The singular form is fine. But put an "s" on the end (who has just one spanking?) and it underlines the word, flagging it as an error.

What are the suggested corrections? There are two: span king (the former nom de plume of a spanking blogger) and the singular form - spanking.

I did some research by typing other discipline-related words, and here's what my little gadget suggests as replacements:

Spanker  (spanner or spanked)

Spanko (spank or spanks)

Spankee (spanked)

Spankophile (spaniels, Spanish, spanning, spangled)

OTK (ok, irk,  oak,  OT, OTC)

TTWD (tied, tad, toad, Todd)


Silly spellchecker. I need to figure out how to make some additions to the custom dictionary.

Look it Up

Remember when you looked up "spanking" in the dictionary, and hoped the librarian wouldn't notice your blushes? Sure, we all did it. Now, it's even more fun to do it electronically. (Click on the picture to enlarge it.)

Using Visual Thesaurus, you can look up those tantalizing words and find definitions and similar words, and even hear how to pronounce them. Right-clicking on a dotted line or a coloured dot produces a pop-up definition, and you can use your mouse to rearrange the little diagram any way you like.

Dictionaries were never this much fun!