Re: define difficult

Try launching Word, typing the word as you think it may be spelled, then 
selecting the word and pressing F7 for spell check.  If you're lucky, the 
spell check program will recognize it and offer the correct spelling among 
maybe a few other guesses.
ohter
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Smith" <rrrsmith@xxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: define difficult



Where is the best place to go if you don't know how to spell the word you
want?

Bob S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "alicia" <astarner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: define difficult


> That is really cool. I will keep that little trick at my disposal too.
> Thanks for the information. This will definitely make things a lot easier
> as I continue in my study of medical words.
>
> Alicia
>
> "The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of
>>seeing people towards them."
>>- Helen Keller, 1925
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Blake Sinnett" <frequency660@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 9:25 PM
> Subject: Re: define difficult
>
>
>> Or, if you wanted to get a definition even quicker, go to google, and
>> type in the search box:
>>
>> define:difficult
>>
>> Then, press enter. Once the page has loaded, just hit l to jump to the
>> list of definitions. Quite cool.
>>
>>
>> From: "alicia" <astarner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reply-To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: Re: define difficult
>> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:18:13 -0600
>>
>> Yardbird:
>>
>> This is really cool. Thanks for sharing this with us. I will be using
>> this allot in the future for looking up words I come across in my college
>> textbooks.
>>
>> Alicia
>>
>> "The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of
>>>seeing people towards them."
>>>- Helen Keller, 1925
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 9:02 PM
>> Subject: Fw: define difficult
>>
>>
>>>Here's an example. I created a new message to wsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, and
>>>in
>>>the subject line, typed only
>>>define difficult
>>>
>>>And sent it off. Here's the reply:
>>>
>>>
>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Wordsmith" <wsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>To: <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 6:16 PM
>>>Subject: define difficult
>>>
>>>
>>>2 definitions found
>>>
>>>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
>>>
>>>  Difficult \Dif"fi*cult\, v. t.
>>>     To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [R.] --Sir W.
>>>     Temple.
>>>
>>>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
>>>
>>>  Difficult \Dif"fi*cult\, a. [From {Difficulty}.]
>>>     1. Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended
>>>        with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
>>>
>>>     Note: Difficult implies the notion that considerable mental
>>>           effort or skill is required, or that obstacles are to
>>>           be overcome which call for sagacity and skill in the
>>>           agent; as, a difficult task; hard work is not always
>>>           difficult work; a difficult operation in surgery; a
>>>           difficult passage in an author.
>>>
>>>                 There is not the strength or courage left me to
>>>                 venture into the wide, strange, and difficult
>>>                 world, alone.                      --Hawthorne.
>>>
>>>     2. Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon;
>>>        austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.
>>>
>>>     Syn: Arduous; painful; crabbed; perplexed; laborious;
>>>          unaccommodating; troublesome. See {Arduous}.
>>>
>>>...........................................................................
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>>>the founder of Wordsmith.org: Another Word A Day, ISBN 0471718459
>>>Find it in your local bookstore or online:
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>>>The New York Times called his first book "A delightful, quirky
>>>collection."
>>>
>>>
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