Words the Firefox spellchecker has claimed to me are not words tonight:

[mcc@mastodon.social]

Words the Firefox spellchecker has claimed to me are not words tonight:

"pescetarian" (or "pescatarian", neither is recognized)

"kigurumi"

Is there a good alternative to the Firefox spellcheck dictionary that I couldn't beat at Scrabble

Mozilla has an addons page that suggests a "English (US) Dictionary Extended" but it's posted as if created by a third party (named… "bugmanavery"?) and it has zero ratings. Has anyone tried this? Is it actually better?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/language-tools/

[mcc@mastodon.social]

The Canadians are being very gracious and are not kicking me out of the country despite my continued insistence on spelling it "color"

[kzurawel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@mcc it’s a pro-cess, I’m sure you’re making pro-gress

[jrose@social.belkadan.com]

@mcc pescatarian, with an A. not sure why.

you got kigurumi right though.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@kzurawel My wife and I each feel the other says "sorry" in a weird way but neither of us can convince the other one that she's saying it the way the other hears it

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@jrose Firefox also claims that pescatarian is misspelled. Perhaps I would be able to spell better if I had a trustworthy spellchecker

[flux@wandering.shop]

@mcc monster.

[jrose@social.belkadan.com]

@mcc …and now I see the iOS “Look Up” feature lists both spellings, but typing “pescetarian” still shows a red underline. >< Maybe I shouldn’t be trying to help

[demize@unstable.systems]

@mcc I’ve always spelled it color, and I was born here and have lived here my whole life

[megmac@social.treehouse.systems]

@mcc no u

[plumbert@thecanadian.social]

@mcc It's ok. We have been underfunding the education system for so long lots of people are terrible at spelling.

<grin, duck, run>

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@Plumbert You're joking but you don't know how right you are. You have no reason to know what the TAAS test is or how it destroyed America

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@megmac :O

[flux@wandering.shop]

@mcc or rather, "mounster"

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@mcc still, they must be so diusauppoiunteud

[ellie@ellieayla.net]

@mcc in css, we've all done things we're not proud of

[plumbert@thecanadian.social]

@mcc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Assessment_of_Academic_Skills?

[rotopenguin@mastodon.social]

@mcc sacre ble

[rotopenguin@mastodon.social]

@Flux @mcc that's a cheese

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@Plumbert Yeah.

The governor of Texas around the time this was introduced, at about the time that it was new enough it seemed like it was having good results but before the bad effects became visible, later became President and took the TAAS philosophy national by passing a bill that heavily incentivized standardized testing.

Meanwhile, I was one of the first students to take the TAAS and then slipped out of the Texas public schools system before it became a factory for producing TAAS scores