{"id":6203,"date":"2015-06-16T12:48:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T12:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=6203"},"modified":"2015-06-16T12:54:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T12:54:05","slug":"microsoft-sits-in-homophone-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=6203","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft sits in homophone corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog has discussed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homophone\">homophones<\/a> before (<a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=2401\"><em>posts passim<\/em><\/a>). Homophone corner is a space to which people who cannot distinguish their homophones are banished to consider the errors of their ways &#8211; rather like the corner of the classroom to which misbehaving children were exiled during my primary school days.<\/p>\n<p>It now appears as though the curse of the homophone is spreading to the giants of the technology world, as shown by the following <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NixTranStories\/status\/610768943461081088\">tweet<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NixTranStories\">Nix Tran Stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2015\/06\/ms_homophone.png\" alt=\"image text reads Dear Microsoft spellchecker, For the umpteenth time: No! I don't want to change Your Ref. to You&#039;re Ref.\" width=\"581\" height=\"411\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/06\/ms_homophone.png 581w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2015\/06\/ms_homophone-300x212.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve used Microsoft Word\/Office since the days of Windows 3.1 and its spelling and grammar checking tools have in my opinion never been particularly good: I&#8217;ve always run rings around them; and now it appears that the spellchecker has been coded by an illiterate.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose the least I could do is pat the leader of the MS Office team on the shoulder and mouth the platitude &#8220;<em>their, there, they&#8217;re!<\/em>&#8220;. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog has discussed homophones before (posts passim). Homophone corner is a space to which people who cannot distinguish their homophones are banished to consider the errors of their ways &#8211; rather like the corner of the classroom to which misbehaving children were exiled during my primary school days. It now appears as though the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,34,9],"tags":[16,10,22,35,23],"class_list":["post-6203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-social-media","category-tech","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-social-media","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6208,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions\/6208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}