I was writing something in MS Word on the election and I suddenly noticed . . . all my instances of Obama had that red underline, indicating a misspelling. Oddly enough, neither McCain nor Kerry were flagged in this way. I wonder how long this will last. . .
P.S. "Palin" is also flagged by the spell-checker but "Biden" is ok.
P.P.S. Movable Type is currently flagging Obama, Palin, and Biden, but not McCain or Kerry.
If you right click on the underlined word you get the option to update your dictionary.
Chuck
Does MT have a dictionary or is that your browser?
I would guess that the reason Kerry and McCain are already in the dictionary is because they are place names.
(Yes, I know there's a town in Japan called "Obama", but the software's dictionary has to draw the line somewhere.)
Mac OS X multilingual dictionaries recognise only Biden.
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I sent a message yesterday to my Juno email tech support people telling them it's time for their dictionary to include Obama. I got the standard thanks for your suggestion reply.
How hard can it be to update these things? Doesn't someone just open a file and add a word to it? Just like I would do it Juno gave me the option?
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