Tag: spelling

What Customers Don’t Like About Brands In Social Media [Infographic]

What Customers Don’t Like About Brands In Social Media [Infographic]

We've all seen or heard about brands in social media taking unfortunate missteps. Whether it was an employee who was logged into the wrong account before ranting, or just plain inappropriate behavior, there have been many embarrassing examples over the past several years. But what about the stuff we ...
Lernstift Pen Will Vibrate When Your Spelling Is Off

Lernstift Pen Will Vibrate When Your Spelling Is Off

About 5 months ago, Diana wrote about a pen called Learnstift. It's a pen that can identify your writing and alert you if your spelling is off. I am sure a lot of people have been dreaming about a pen like this, and it looks like it is finally here. Well, somewhat that is. The Lernstift pen is actua ...
How Techspeak Can Hurt Your English Grammar Skills [Infographic]

How Techspeak Can Hurt Your English Grammar Skills [Infographic]

If you spend a lot of time on text, Twitter, Skype chat or any other instant messaging service (who doesn't these days?), you might find it easier to remember techspeak more than grammar rules. Techspeak is the way we 'speak' on those services. It includes all the SMS abbreviations, plus more, that ...
The Vibrating Pen That Is A Spell Checker For Handwriting

The Vibrating Pen That Is A Spell Checker For Handwriting

When we think of a spell checker, we normally think of a software or word processor that checks our words as we type them. Bloggers use those tools every day, and they keep us from looking sloppy when we choose speed over accuracy as we type. Wouldn't it be handy to have a spell checker in an actual ...
How Using Good Grammar Online Can Help You Find Love [Infographic]

How Using Good Grammar Online Can Help You Find Love [Infographic]

Cyber dating is more popular now than ever before as more and more people are finding love online. Whether it's on Facebook or any one of the thousands of dating sites, love is in the air online. What you may not realize though is that there is a different set of rules when it comes to what is consi ...
Ultimate Guide For Proofreading Your Posts Quickly & Effectively

Ultimate Guide For Proofreading Your Posts Quickly & Effectively

As a blogger, you probably know it is very important to proofread and edit your posts before you publish them, especially if you want to be taken seriously as a writer. Poorly proofed articles can affect how many times they're shared and how many pageviews they get. Most importantly though, when you ...
Top 15 Misspelled Words In The US & UK [Infographic]

Top 15 Misspelled Words In The US & UK [Infographic]

It's time to visit the school books again, people! Not really, but it's time to have another look at the English language to see what facepalms we can rule out from our everyday writing. It so happens that some of the most commonly used words are actually the ones that people misspell the most. Imag ...
Funny Grammar Mistakes On Signs In America [20 Pics]

Funny Grammar Mistakes On Signs In America [20 Pics]

English is my native language, and I'm the first to admit it's really messed up sometimes. Or, better stated, everyone messes it up sometimes. There are so many little quirky grammar rules to remember that it can give you a headache just trying to keep it all straight. If I get frustrated with the E ...
Brain Food: The Hardest Languages To Learn

Brain Food: The Hardest Languages To Learn

Do you know what the hardest language to learn is? It turns out; the answer to that question depends on what your native language is. If a language is similar to your native language, it won't be as difficult for you to learn as it might be for someone else. Overall, languages are very complex, and ...

The 5 Possible Reasons Why Your Blog Sucks!

All your friends are blogging. All your friend's friends are blogging. You say to yourself, "Okay, I want to be a blogger too."  So you start your own blog site.  You go through the checklist of things to do when you start a blog. You start writing and publishing your articles. Then, you start p ...

Online Spelling and Grammar Help for Writers!

There are so many new applications that are created each day!  It's a good thing we have so many developers that seek out ways to create applications that are meant solely to help us with our writing! There are several things that a writer needs to do in order to make sure that he or she won't ge ...

10 Simple Tips for Those New To Blogging

I am not going to teach anyone here how to blog, this is just going to be a reminder for our friends and readers who have just recently started blogging or are in the process of starting one.  When I was new at blogging I was lucky enough to learn from the best and for stuff I did not understand,  I ...
Spelling Check | Language Translation on Google Wave

Spelling Check | Language Translation on Google Wave

If you have already been waving or is starting to wave, tips and process information on how things work on there is always helpful.  Waving is real time, and when you converse on there you see people as they type in a word, a phrase and you can even answer even when the person is not done typing yet ...
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