JQuinton comments on Open thread, August 26 - September 1, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JQuinton 27 August 2013 05:09:50PM 0 points [-]

I thought it was spelled that way, but Firefox said it was wrong :/

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 28 August 2013 09:09:15PM *  4 points [-]

Firefox is correct: "lyme disease" is wrong. What's wrong is not the spelling but the capitalization.

When I right-click on "lyme" in firefox, it suggests capitalization, just like it does for "firefox."

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 15 September 2013 08:15:04AM 0 points [-]

I didn't know about right-clicking on words that a spell-checker says are wrong.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 27 August 2013 07:27:26PM 2 points [-]

You can't trust spell-checkers-- their vocabulary lists tend to be incomplete.

I recommend at least going to a search engine if you have a strong intuition about how a word should be spelled.

It's not that intuition is entirely reliable, either. It was a hard fight to convince me that it should be irrelevant rather than irrelevent. Now they both look wrong.