Because so many of us rely on Translators spelling becomes very important. What do you use? How many have you tried? Which one is your favorite and if I may ask Why?
I like ieSpell, it's easy for me because I use Internet Explorer a left click gets it done.
http://www.iespell.com/ - The authors site - links to a mirror to download.

So far the only "spell-checker" that I use is the hardbound edition of Webster's. I try to write as clearly as I can due to the fact that Web based Translators are not very reliable. The Translator that I currently use is Google Text and Web.

Google's translator is good. They updated it some time ago and it's quite intelligent now. It can recognise names and sentences, as long as they start with a capital and end with a dot.

For spelling I normally use the firefox English dictionary. If I'm not sure I check the free dictionary. For German canoo.net is great.

Since there are so many French people here, can someone advice me a good French dictionary? (French-French ; no translator)

For french Antidote Rx is the best imo but it costs 120€

Many programs do not come with spell check or grammar check. The programs that do come with spell check or grammar check, sometimes fail due to bugs-- their spell checking and grammar checking stop working.

If a program does come with spell check and grammar check, and these two features are working, then often they are not very good spell check and grammar check features. Or they do not support the spell checking language you want to use.

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Nice ad. Too bad seven days is a terrible trial period. Even Micro$haft offers 30 day trials on their products. And no matter how good your spell/grammar checker is, it won't catch things like pint instead of print. Best thing is to read what you've written. Or have someone else do it. These mistakes fall under "attenion to detail" which most jobs require you to have.

sharkfan wrote : These mistakes fall under "attenion to detail" which most jobs require you to have.

...or even "attention to detail" (Sorry, couldn't resist it!)

I normally use OpenOffice.org Writer in conjunction with the standard, soffice and Ubuntu dictionaries that come as standard with OOo Writer and Ubuntu linux.

Spotting this topic made me look at grammar checkers, and I know that AbiWord has an associated grammar checker of reasonable repute, although I haven't been able to get it working under Ubuntu yet. AbiWord could well be of interest to multilingual writers because it has many useful tools including access to online translators like the Google one from within AbiWord itself.

I was also inspired to add the LanguageTool open source language checker, from http://www.languagetool.org/ , to OOo Writer. It seems to provide primitive grammar checking in a variety of languages and actually spotted a common mistake many native English writers make - the replacement of 'lose' with 'loose', so it can pick up words that have a legitimate spelling but are out of context,

Unfortunately it doesn't pick up all common grammatical errors

Both OOoWriter and AbiWord are multiplatform and are available for Linux and Windows

Google's spell checker does a pretty decent job as you can alternate between many languages

I can't remember what spell checker I use within Firefox, maybe it's the default.

I do know that in Thunderbird I have an Australian related language add-on installed. (British English in case anyone thought we had a language all to ourselves down here.)

Firefox has indeed a build-in spellingchecker. I also use the freeware version of WordWeb.

If anyone knows of one that can distinguish between they're, there, and their, I may be dragged into the 21st century and start using one. Until then, I'll choose to rely on the one that sister Assumpta installed in my noggin some 35 years ago.

Newdood wrote:Until then, I'll choose to rely on the one that sister Assumpta installed in my noggin some 35 years ago.

now that is a spellchecker that you can rely on...

Newdood wrote : . . . sister Assumpta installed in my noggin some 35 years ago.

(45 years ago) Lest we face the tugging of the ear lobe, the pinch and shake of the fleshy skin under the chin, or the ruler slap to the knuckles. lol

Catholic school sure was fun!

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I use this one. It spell checks while you write in forums as well as every were else.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3497/