re: Writing English documents the "proper" way

Cliff Hobbs at FAQShop.com — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:50:00 GMT

Don't forget proper spellings and pronunciations as we're talking writing proper English e.g.

colour not color

centre not center

"rooter" not "rowter"

"water" not "warter"

and countless others ;-)

Thing is being English having to do this "translation" can at times be almost like talking a second language (after typing Center as in "System Center" so many times I've found myself misspelling the UK English word "centre" on more than one occasion)

re: Writing English documents the "proper" way

alipka — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:36:03 GMT

Cliff - you are right, however most of the time I am using US English (since that this the English I learned) but I guess it depends on the audience or country. I am not to judge whether UK English is more "proper" then US English;)

I know my remarks are only a subset of many guidelines, but they should refer to both UK and US English.

Anyway I got some info from Blake Handler (http://bhandler.spaces.live.com):

"I'm sure you already know about this feature -- but it would be a great time to mention the "Active / Passive" Grammar Checker feature within Microsoft Office.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP101477121033.aspx"

Maybe it will help out as well. I haven't used it before though.