Meme

[jack]

Meme: What are the most recent five words in your custom dictionary? Pick a line of five from the middle (fudge if you want to) -- can you remember when you used them?

Last five:

squee
online
Cracus
Hulme
snarky

Middle five:

Orcs -- Can I just say "anything by Tolkien is ok?"
Hagrid -- For that matter, how much national effort must have been wasted adding Harry Potter names to dictionaries? Would we save much energy by getting someone to issue more comprehensive dictionaries? :)
leet -- Irony
Euthyphro -- Conveniently, I can google where I used this: hpost
exes -- OK, a bit non-standard
snork -- :)
Slytherin's -- OK, maybe there's a good reason not to automatically add plurals and possessives and inflected forms to the dictionary when you add a word. But you could add them to the list of suggestions if you had time to code it...

Comments

[cornute.livejournal.com]

Spellcheckers aren't terribly useful for me either; I have a funny feeling about words I may have misspelled, with about a 30% error rate (that is, I think it's wrong, but it's right when I look it up). I can't remember the last time I misspelled a word and didn't know it was wrong, but I know it was over two years ago.

The online/software sort would, thus, only be useful for (a) flagging that one word in two years, and (b) telling me instantly without the trouble of looking it up when I have a funny feeling about a word I think might be wrong.

The words I have trouble spelling are actually written in pencil on the frame of my monitor. They are:

tyranny (no doubled "r")
judgment (the US spelling; the UK one seems to have the "e" I always want to add)
penicillin (People have two eyes. Antibiotic has three.)
acetaminophen (paracetamol, to y'all)

I used to have trouble with Fibonacci, too, but I've quit trying to add the extra "n" to it.