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Your keyboard setting is dominated by the site setting.
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TOG wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:09 pm
bolueeleh wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:02 pm dont think its the setting in CEO, its ur phone or laptop or PC, windows keyboard language setting

Blue Ridge Mountain, Old Dominion workforce

Sounds like you did live in the south/ redneck land!
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that genius wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 6:06 pm Your keyboard setting is dominated by the site setting.
The site (CEO) setting is British English.

It's the Opera browser that is red lining my spelling. Using a VPN, I cannot change the settings until I log out and I am downloading some files at present so that will have to wait.
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bvanfossen wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 6:11 pm Sounds like you did live in the soth/ redneck land!
I lived in the Old Dominion. A small place called Berryville. Most of my workforce were from Front Royal area.
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TOG wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:25 pm The Penh is mightier than the sword.
Food for thought, food for thought.
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that genius wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 6:17 pm
TOG wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:25 pm The Penh is mightier than the sword.
Food for thought, food for thought.
You must be living in a different universe or too much Singha.

Definitely wrote PEN
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colour, colour, colour, colour

Just bloody ignore the red line FFS. What a ridiculous post. Who CARES about the red line? Its not like it actually changes the spelling. Just another waste of time post. :crazy: :Bravo: :P
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TOG wrote:
that genius wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 6:06 pm Your keyboard setting is dominated by the site setting.
The site (CEO) setting is British English.

It's the Opera browser that is red lining my spelling. Using a VPN, I cannot change the settings until I log out and I am downloading some files at present so that will have to wait.
I'm convinced CEO does not have a 'spell checker' at all, and that the site setting has no effect on whatever spell checker you are using.

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Hotdigr wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 7:30 pm colour, colour, colour, colour

Just bloody ignore the red line FFS. What a ridiculous post. Who CARES about the red line? Its not like it actually changes the spelling. Just another waste of time post. :crazy: :Bravo: :P
Whoaaaaa. someones having a hissy fit. Time of the month perhaps?

Maybe the thread on Wanking or abusive language about litter makers may be more suitable to you than a straightforward question.
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General Mackevili wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 7:52 pmI'm convinced CEO does not have a 'spell checker' at all, and that the site setting has no effect on whatever spell checker you are using.
It's my VPN I am using in Opera.

Being pedantic, I like to use British English just as Americans prefer American English. Seeing the red lines brings into question my spelling.

Unlike some who obviously never made it past kindergarten and probably cannot spell their own names.
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