Tag: SPELLING

Just because your young daughter types "CU L8R" when she texts her friends doesn't mean she won't be able to spell real words when she grows up. In fact, one new study claims that, contrary to popular belief, texting will actually improve her spelling skills. The study, conducted by researchers at Coventry University, examined 114 9- and 10-year-old children who did not already use cell phones. ...

We don't know what the big deal iz, but they're are all these ppl saying Facebook makes our spelling worse. The English Spelling Society says that 66-percent of kidz like us think dictionaries should include "variant spellings" to address common typos. So what do we think? Its whatev. ...

Google, it seems, is never content with its search product. The Big G is constantly tweaking, updating and generally improving the results and suggestions it offers. The latest round of improvements both makes Google Suggest location-aware, and extends the spelling correction feature to cover common names as well as other languages. Google Suggest will now use the city of origin in order to ...

Let this be a lesson to you: spell check, spell check, spell check. We can't say it enough. We're not spelling snobs. We don't even care if other people think you're a doofus. We just want to save you the pain and humiliation of losing $500,000 due to a bonehead-spelling mistake -- something one poor sap recently experienced on the mean streets of eBay through the sale of a priceless bottle of ...