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I have a Mac, so mine came with one. I had to download a separate one to use in my earthlink email. I'd expect to be able to find it in your tools, but if you can do a "find file" search, (Is that right? It's "Finder" in Mac.) for "spell check" or maybe "spellcheck" and see if anything comes...

BR, I had no idea that English was not your native tongue. I'm sure you're doing the best you can. I've known many people from other countries who's spelling and grammar was much better than most Americans. Perhaps yours isn't, because you have been here since childhood. I was mostly responding...

Quote: Most people have spell check on their computers. Some even have grammar check. They just don't use it. Those things aren't infallible anyway, but they help. I just used mine to correct my spelling of "infallible". Who's Nifty?

Quote: "pont" one out??? what does that mean? Means I made a typo...like yours, below, your "favotite", and "succomed". Quote: Or "killed", or "dead"....I agree. OMG, the newspapers and newscasts are some of the worst. And TV commercials, too. How about this one, that we hear often...

Quote: Do you mean there were fewer and fewer slip ups? BR, you make huge numbers of spelling and grammatical errors, and you do it so consistently, (while calling other people ignorant) that I know it's not just typos. Everybody makes typos. So who do you blame for your poor use of the...

Incorrect word usage always bugs me, but I try hard to disregard it. Otherwise I'd drive everybody crazy and I'd soon be getting death threats if I corrected one more word. Waddle in place of wattle. Were in place of where, or the other way around. (Think, "Where were you the night of ....")...

I agree, "cull" is often used by people as a euphemism for "kill", "slaughter", "butcher", etc., because it helps them avoid thinking about what the deed actually is. It bugs me, too. In livestock vernacular it is used the way Lazy J says. It isn't to indicate routine slaughter of meat animals...