What is wrong with the Yahoo spellchecker?

Question

Why does the spellchecker no longer work for me after the so called upgrade by yahoo?

I can't be the only one that has this problem. When I misspell a word, the spellchecker highlights part of it, and part of the next word to it.Here's an example I couldnunderstandnd it. Am I the only one? I thought they would correct it at some point, but they haven't yet.

Answer 1

no but when you misspell something it never gives you the right word

Answer 2

I hate it. It says things are misspelled that aren't. And constantly says "Looks like you have a lot of punctuation." Well I'm sorry, Yahoo! but I like closing my parenthesis and using a period in a quotation like your supposed to. Oh yeah, and the other STUPID thing is if you put something into CAPS because there's no BOLD or ITALIC or HTML options on the site it things I have the freaking CAPS LOCK key on!

Answer 3

It's a new feature to YA. I  was working on Answers when they were installing it and it's a royal pain. Wish they would switch back to the old system.

Answer 4

It never has been a good checker but I have noticed that it has become sporadic.  Most of the time I find it quicker to cut and paste to a word file, check it there, then cut and paste back and it is a much better checker.  

Answer 5

Nothing is wrong but thanks for asking.

Answer 6

Use the little "X" at the top right part of the spell check box and it will go off and leave you alone. I write a lot of medical terms and the spell check is just a big pain because it doesn't have those words in its data base.  

Answer 7

I don't know, I usually tune out the spell checker because some of the words I use are not known by the dictionary that the spellchecker uses. It doesn't have common words that we say today and it doesn't have slang either so it's quite annoying.

Answer 8

I don't know, but I do know that is has taken words that I spelled correctly incorrectly. probably  you'd be best trusting another source.  

Answer 9

I notice it says I have misspelled words when I clearly have them....but it won't tell me what...so I use my own spellchecker!

OK..i Just noticed something.  When the bubble comes up and it says you have misspelled words..under the statement is a link that says open spell checker.  Then all of a sudden things happen.  Try it...it does correct things but you have to open the spell checker.

Answer 10

The new Yahoo spell checker is more annoying than the previous, but my main complaint is that it is in American English and not British English and highlights correctly spelled words.

I just wish that people would use the spell checker (even with the American English) as the majority of questions and answers are full of mistakes, both spelling, grammar and punctuation.

I am also always annoyed at the use of "Texting" language. I had to use "cableese" (abbreviated words for telegrams) when I worked as a journalist many years ago, but with the internet, having to use "cableese" or text language is redundant.

Answer 11

lol,,, its actually really annoying. because im typing and its like oops you have 10 misspellings and im like well you know what,, i meant to spell it that way