Grammar Royalty and Spelling Knighthood – Blogging: 101 Pt. 26

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Richard W Scott

Continued from Part 25

See the whole series starting with the first post

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.

Continued in Part 27

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8 Responses

  1. Are You Serious? – Blogging: 101 Pt. 27 « Uphill Writing, on March 21, 2010 at 10:33 AM Said:

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  2. aardvarkian, on March 21, 2010 at 10:39 AM Said:

    I still get called on my British spelling. Is there a way I can switch off US English? It tees me of no end.

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    • Richard W Scott, on March 21, 2010 at 10:52 AM Said:

      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.

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  3. nrhatch, on March 21, 2010 at 11:51 AM Said:

    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.

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  4. Richard W Scott, on March 21, 2010 at 12:03 PM Said:

    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.

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  5. aardvarkian, on March 21, 2010 at 12:05 PM Said:

    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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