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Post by Alan Palmer on Jul 17, 2008 14:28:40 GMT
When I typed underperform in my post above* Firefox's British English spulling chucker underlined it as wrong and suggested under perform. I chose to add the word to the dictionary instead of changing it.
* Actually, it's not above, it's on the previous page.
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Post by Twoddle on Jul 17, 2008 16:30:05 GMT
I haven't checked any spelling using Firefox for quite a while, but the last time I tried it it had a very strange notion of what constituted British English - more New York than York, and more Birmingham, Alabama than Birmingham, Warwickshire. Techno-cultural imperialism, anyone?
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Post by Glyn on Jul 17, 2008 16:38:28 GMT
Despite the Oxford Dictionary of English it is under-perform for me. As it is for me.
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Post by Pete on Jul 17, 2008 16:48:49 GMT
I agree with all other posters so far. Just in case you're taking this as a vote! ;D It's 2-2 so far with under-perform Vs underperform. You have the casting vote, Pete, but as your post was completely ambiguous due to previous posters saying different things, I'm in gridlock. Yes, I see the ambiguity now! What I meant was that I was agreeing that it was not a split infinitive, regardless of whether it was one word or a hyphenated compound.
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Post by Alan Palmer on Jul 17, 2008 18:31:58 GMT
I imagine you had the US dictionary installed. You can get Firefox dictionaries from addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3 - it includes Australian, British, Canadian and South African English dictionaries, as well as the US version.
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Post by Verbivore on Jul 17, 2008 21:42:13 GMT
The "Oz" spelling dictionary that came with Firefox 1 and the early versions of Ff 2 was rather similar to MS-Word's in its techno-culturally imperialistic idea of Oz English. However, toward the end of Ff 2, and certainly with Ff 3 (currently at 3.0.1), it improved considerably, and now very rarely marks my Oz spellings as suspect. It didn't complain about underperform. The Mozilla folk must have done some research (and/or had enough feedback from disgruntled Aussies to motivate them to make improvements). As much as I dislike on-the-fly spelling checkers in other programs, I do find those in web browsers and e-mail clients useful for catching typos - of which I make more as the signals between brain and fingers slow down. (For longer, print-intended material, I leave spelling checkers off until the job is all but complete, then I run the typo-checker.)
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jul 17, 2008 22:35:34 GMT
Reminder: this topic is about underperform.
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Post by Trevor on Jul 18, 2008 9:25:35 GMT
Under-perform for me. In case anyone's interested.
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Post by Vadim on Jul 18, 2008 9:59:32 GMT
The final decision, as according to "Vadim's Guid to Style" is >>>> wait for it...... underperform ;D This is purely based on the fact that Twoddle posses far too much Karma for my liking .
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Post by Twoddle on Jul 18, 2008 16:28:39 GMT
The final decision, as according to "Vadim's Guid to Style" is >>>> wait for it...... underperform ;D This is purely based on the fact that Twoddle posses far too much Karma for my liking . "Twoddle posses". Are they groups of Twoddles enlisted by local sheriffs to hunt the baddies? "The Good, The Bad and The Twoddles." "For a Few Twoddles More." "High Twoddle." (Perhaps not.) I've given you an extra karma point anyway, Vadim; look upon me as a karma comedian.
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jul 18, 2008 17:00:54 GMT
Locked as it seems to have run its course, and before Twoddle is tempted to make any more dreadful puns.
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