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farlaOpenOffice and Firefox do not recognize the word "sniggering".
I'm now curious if you could do some sort of long term rearrangement of vocabulary use simply by slowly removing terms from various spellchecks, encouraging people to retry with a supported synonym until the word falls out of use entirely, and if someone's already trying this out.
I'm now curious if you could do some sort of long term rearrangement of vocabulary use simply by slowly removing terms from various spellchecks, encouraging people to retry with a supported synonym until the word falls out of use entirely, and if someone's already trying this out.
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Date: 2009-11-10 12:59 pm (UTC)Is it just that no one ever used niggardly in the first place, so it never came up? Does the a rather than e make the Internet Overlords not care, because their computer brains don't have any idea how it sounds out loud?