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#131319 08/12/04 12:30 AM
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The spell checker on my WORD 2003 program bounces back "daren't" as a non-word. Yet, M-W lists it. What's up with those chipheads at Microsoft?



#131320 08/12/04 10:10 AM
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Parboly they took the top 10,000 words off the wordcount list and thought that'd be enough for any normal person.


#131321 08/12/04 01:52 PM
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You need a special British version maybe, one that would include daren't, mustn't, and of course, dog's bollocks.
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang


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a special British version Oh, man--can't you just envision a "conversation" between British and U.S. spell-checkers? I think it would be a lot like that howl-worthy Abbott and Costello dialogue that Ted posted in W & F!

B: I say, daren't is indeed a word.
US: Naw.
B: Gnaw? I'm not hungry.


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That's funny Father Steve. If I set my Word program on Enlgish (US) it accept the word.

Tell me though, doesn't the U.S. versions of Word have dictionaries in a whole slew of languages like ours?


#131324 08/12/04 10:23 PM
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Down south we don't much say "daren't"; but we sometimes do. Mostly we just say "dasen't", which is different.


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RANKIN: Indeed and they did. The poor Cadi is so terrified by all he has haird of the destruction of the Spanish fleet, that he daren't trust himself in the captain's hands.

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DRINKWATER: (in intense distress, appealing to Lady Cicely) Down't let em burn em, Lidy. They dasn't if you horder them not to.

Captain Brassbound's Conversion by George Bernard Shaw, Act III.




#131326 08/13/04 03:02 AM
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What's up with those chipheads at Microsoft?

Padre, you're the best placed of all of us to do so, so why don't you jest mosey on down the road, kick down their front door and ask them?



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why don't you jest mosey on down the road, kick down their front door and ask them?

My darling daughter dated a Softie for a time and I thought that would give me all sorts of access into the inner workings of the Brain Trust in nearby Redmond. Boy, was I wrong! Those people are more tight-lipped than the CIA.



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daren't

My favorite form of dare is durst. Is there a form durstn't? There should be. Quite lovely. Why would anybody modify their speech based on the ravings of a prescriptivist (digital or human)?


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