[bksvol-discuss] Re: Spelling Errors?
- From: Steve Holmes <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 11:09:55 -0700
Thanks to all of you for your input. I started changing a few of
those travel words but I guess I better put them back. Yes, this book
takes place back in ancient England with templar warriers. What I
might do is add these "miss-spelled" words words into my local
dictionary so OOo Writer won't keep flagging them.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:59:01PM -0500, Gary Petraccaro wrote:
> It depends on what the book actually has. If you're proofing, see
> if someone can check the original through Google. If you're doing
> the original scan, and you're not seeing scanos related to these
> words, ignore what your software says. I have seen chainmail as
> separate words, with a dash, and as a single word, each in a
> different book and each was exactly what the book had.
> Btw, this is one of the reasons I'd recommend to everyone to check
> their autocorrections for every book they do. Several examples: the
> word "wold" was corrected to "would", "rne" was corrected to "me",
> and "hoy" was corrected to "boy." In the case of the author I
> happen to be doing, each of these corrections would have been in
> error, with the "rne" supposed to be "nie".
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Holmes"
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>
> >I'm working on a book which has the words, "travellers" and
> >"travelling" spelled as I showed them here but Open Office Writer
> >points them out as being miss-spelled and indicates the correct
> >spelling is with a single 'l' in both cases. I'm rather a poor
> >speller at times so am a bit unsure here. I'm assuming the spell
> >check in OOo Writer is correct but if these words are consistently
> >miss-spelled throughout the book, Should I fix them or should I
> >leave them as being intended by the author? I would normally not
> >change intentional bad grammar if that was the author's intent but
> >what about words like these? I would tend towards correcting these
> >in this case.
> >
> >What say you?
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