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Sep. 16th, 2009 05:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonimpWord and Scrivener disagree on whether it's "nicknacks" or "knickknacks". But then, Word also doesn't like "grey" or "judgement" (or "thunked"), so I think I'm going to go with Scrivener on this one. Besides, "knickknacks" has far too many Ks, it looks awkward and stuttery. (Incidentally, Safari's spellcheck doesn't have a problem with any of those words - except for "stuttery", which I think isn't actually a word - but Safari also lets "kinda" and "gonna" get through.)
(LJ's spellcheck, on the other hand, dislikes "nicknacks", "judgement", "thunked", "stuttery", and "spellcheck". It's fine with "kinda" and "gonna". It wants me to change "nicknacks" to either "nicknack's" or "knickknacks", which really doesn't make much sense. "Nicknack" can be possessive, but not plural?)
(LJ's spellcheck, on the other hand, dislikes "nicknacks", "judgement", "thunked", "stuttery", and "spellcheck". It's fine with "kinda" and "gonna". It wants me to change "nicknacks" to either "nicknack's" or "knickknacks", which really doesn't make much sense. "Nicknack" can be possessive, but not plural?)
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Date: 2009-09-17 12:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-17 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-17 07:28 am (UTC)OED claims knick-knack, hyphenated. Never seen it without those Ks before, is that the US spelling?
Works would let me have Fuhrer singular but then changes it to fuehrers plural, which is a lot of use to meeee. Feh.
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Date: 2009-09-17 04:31 pm (UTC)That would drive me nuts, I can never remember how to spell fuhrer/fuehrer anyway...
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Date: 2009-09-17 02:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-17 04:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-17 08:03 pm (UTC)...not to mention Spellcheck not liking Spellcheck ^_^
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Date: 2009-09-17 09:18 pm (UTC)