Skip to content

The Eclectic Light Company

Macs, painting, and more
Main navigation
  • Downloads
  • M1 & M2 Macs
  • Mac Problems
  • Mac articles
  • Art
  • Macs
  • Painting

spell-checker

There/their/they’re goes the Cupertino

T T Read More

Driven crazy by spurious spelling corrections? Don’t get mad with your spell-checker, train it.

August 5, 2021 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Support for Celtic and other languages

What OS X and browser support is there for Scottish Gaelic and other Celtic tongues?

July 14, 2015 Language, Macs, Technology

The Samuel Johnson Code

Before the Boston Tea Party, the few precious official copies of Johnson’s dictionary in the American lands were destroyed in commando-style raids, leading to the War of Independence.

June 15, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Spelling colour correctly

Pages seems stuck using American spelling. How can I change it to use British English instead?

May 24, 2015 Macs, Technology

Inside Dictionaries and Keyboards

T T Read More

Macs have always provided good tools to support writing in different languages, and Yosemite has continued to advance them. But how can you tailor and extend them?

May 10, 2015 Language, Macs, Technology

Failure in language evolution?

Why have languages not (yet) evolved to be more robust? The effects of small errors with large consequences […]

March 4, 2015 General, Language, Life, Technology
Blog at WordPress.com.
Footer navigation
  • About & Contact
  • Macs
  • Painting
  • Language
  • Tech
  • Life
  • General
  • Downloads
  • Mac problem-solving
  • Extended attributes (xattrs)
  • Painting topics
  • Hieronymus Bosch
  • English language
  • LockRattler: 10.12 Sierra
  • LockRattler: 10.13 High Sierra
  • LockRattler: 10.11 El Capitan
  • Updates: El Capitan
  • Updates: Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur
  • LockRattler: 10.14 Mojave
  • SilentKnight, silnite, LockRattler, SystHist & Scrub
  • DelightEd & Podofyllin
  • xattred, Metamer, Sandstrip & xattr tools
  • 32-bitCheck & ArchiChect
  • T2M2, Ulbow, Consolation and log utilities
  • Cirrus & Bailiff
  • Taccy, Signet, Precize, Alifix, UTIutility, Sparsity, alisma
  • Revisionist & DeepTools
  • Text Utilities: Nalaprop, Dystextia and others
  • PDF
  • Keychains & Permissions
  • LockRattler: 10.15 Catalina
  • Updates
  • Spundle, Cormorant, Stibium, Dintch, Fintch and cintch
  • Long Reads
  • Mac Troubleshooting Summary
  • LockRattler: 11.0 Big Sur
  • M1 & M2 Macs
  • Mints: a multifunction utility
  • LockRattler: 12.x Monterey
  • VisualLookUpTest
  • Virtualisation on Apple silicon
  • LockRattler: 13.x Ventura
Secondary navigation
  • Search

Begin typing your search above and press return to search. Press Esc to cancel.

  • Follow Following
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Join 3,130 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • The Eclectic Light Company
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar