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Monday, October 10, 2005

Yet another Google use

If you aren't a native English speaker, you probably often hesitate about the spelling of a word, yet are not typing in an environment that supports spell check, such as this Blogger web-based editor I'm using right now.

I sometimes find googlefight to be an interesting alternative to online dictionaries : Just make a fight between the two spellings you are considering and see which one is the winner :-)

e.g.: committed is right. commited is wrong.

Of course, this trick is not supposed to replace a good ol' dictionary. or a real spell checker. It's just more fun. :-)

4 Comments:

At 12:44 PM, J said...

As if native English speakers didn't need an spell checker :)

 
At 12:45 PM, J said...

That should've been a spell checker!

 
At 1:02 PM, Serge said...

Yep. I told you : Use Googlefight :-)

 
At 7:38 PM, David Brabant said...

Google fight is damn cool to answer your existential questions as well ! I just tried "Sex" vs "Programming".
I knew it, I knew it !

 

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