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If your Blog Hosting Service supports a Spelling and Grammar check and you’re not making full use of it… why not?
If you believe your work is beyond reproach, well, congratulations on your high level of confidence, I rather think you are fooling yourself.
A full-time Blogger, someone who Blogs to a daily set of deadlines—no matter if they are self-imposed—is likely to make mistakes as he or she rushes to complete a post.
Allowing the Spell Checker to let you know of a bad spelling—and making the fix—is an obvious step in keeping your Blog posts professional. Doing the same with a Grammar checker is a bit trickier. For one thing you may not always agree with the Grammar Nazi, and want to go ahead and say it your way. That’s well and good, but as I used to tell a non-conformist friend, if you understand the rules, breaking them has greater meaning.
The Grammar checker on WordPress has a number of switches. It will check for the standards, Passive Voice, Complex Expressions, and the like, but you can also turn on a check for “biased” language, among other things.
As a Spell Checker will help you improve your spelling if you use it that way and not as a crutch, the Grammar Checker can make you a stronger writer.
You can make a game of it The coolest thing you can see when you click the Spelling/Grammar Check button is “No Errors Found.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio... and isn't it time you experienced some of them?
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I still get called on my British spelling. Is there a way I can switch off US English? It tees me of no end.
James,
I don’t recall seeing a fix for that. Odd, too, as it wouldn’t take too much to do a localization. I’ll delve a little deeper and see what I can come up with.
I thought that I did see something about switching languages on WordPress.
Don’t specifically recall where or what ~ but I do believe it was around the grammar checker.
I looked under Users, Profile and you can indeed select a language, but I did not see a difference between UK and US English. Sigh.
I shall endeavour to ignore the red squiggle under words, such as “endeavour”.
I see your “sigh” and raise you one of my own.
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