How Often Do You Use the Dictionary or Google?

[Ruthanne]

There are words I constantly can't define alone..so I google them or just keep on wondering.

I have yet to learn the meaning of surreal and many other English words.

Do you know all the words or wonder like I do?

 

[Aunt Bea]

I Google.

Many years ago I read or at least tried to read L. Ron Hubbard's book Dianetics in which he stressed the need to clear and define words. That's about all I remember but it stuck with me and has served me well over the years.

http://www.scientologyhandbook.org/study/chapter1.htm

 

[Ken N Tx]

 

[Mike]

I use it for checking spelling.

Mike.

 

[Ken N Tx]

I use it for checking spelling.

Mike.

My browser has spell check..

 

[Pappy]

I use google pretty much daily. When I find a word hard to spell, I ask Alexa or Siri.

 

[hollydolly]

I use it occasionally but I'm pretty good at spelling and definitions... I also use Google Home and or Amazon Alexa sometimes too ...

 

[ronaldj]

every week, if not every day. I like to write and so I look up spelling all the time, or definitions. I find myself using google more for spelling, because if you cannot spell a word how can you look it up?
some times my spell check will say "what?"

 

[CarolfromTX]

I've always been a big reader. I have a great vocabulary, but of course there are words with which I am unfamiliar. I don't encounter them often (mostly in crossword puzzles) but when I do I go to the online dictionary.

 

[RadishRose]

I don't need to look up words very often, but when needed I do use the Internet.

I use a different search engine; not Google.

 

[Mike]

My browser has spell check..

Mine did as well Ken, till I started using Duckduckgo as an
add-on in Mozilla FireFox, so if I am at all doubtful, I need
to check.

Mike.

 

[CrackerJack]

I use Google when needed on spellings that want to check out. I used yo use my Oxford dictionary but its gathering dust as Mr Google is so handy but I like the paper aspect of a good dictionary or Thesaurus and Ive the an old Rogets thesaurus and when a young school child loved reading it page by page.

 

[StarSong]

I also use duckduckgo (because it doesn't track you) as a search engine, but generally go to dictionary.com for definitions. Someone here (maybe Ken?) turned me on to a very handy little gizmo, WordWeb.

Like @Ruthanne, there are some words whose meanings I never seem to fully grasp no matter how many times I look them up. "Sanguine" comes immediately to mind. Does it mean flushed, red, cheerful, bloody? All of the above? "Insipid" is another that I'd never be comfortable using.

Pffft...

 

[jerry old]

Not that worrisome with definitions, it's the darn spelling. As the years fly by I have become more and more doubtful if the
word is spelt correctly, or is it even close. I have more spelling demons that six people.
Definitions-often experience 'tip of the tongue phenomenon', which has almost become a daily experience. You can't look it up if you can't spell it, or even get close.
*had to look up phenomenon

 

[Gary O']

I use MS-word when writing anything of length

otherwise, Google

I will go to the dictionary if Google doesn't satisfy me

 

[CrackerJack]

My spelling can fail me at times and words like successful and sentense and sentance and some words I could spell with ease when younger but I nip onto Google when on my phone and flick between there and here when in doubt Google.
I have and English Grammar App and its very good for my use

 

[Ken N Tx]

Someone here (maybe Ken?) turned me on to a very handy little gizmo, WordWeb.

 

[Don M.]

Google Chrome underlines any words I misspell, and I keep WordWeb bookmarked to find the correct spelling....been doing this for years, and it helps me appear to be fairly "Aware" when I send a note....I find myself using Wordweb more and more as the years pass.

 

[StarSong]

Google Chrome underlines any words I misspell, and I keep WordWeb bookmarked to find the correct spelling....been doing this for years, and it helps me appear to be fairly "Aware" when I send a note....I find myself using Wordweb more and more as the years pass.

Ah yes, @Don M., you are the sweetheart who introduced me to that handy little app. I keep a shortcut on my desktop toolbar so that it's never more than a click away. Thanks again for the tip!

 

[Ken N Tx]

Google Chrome underlines any words I misspell, and I keep WordWeb bookmarked to find the correct spelling....been doing this for years, and it helps me appear to be fairly "Aware" when I send a note....I find myself using Wordweb more and more as the years pass.

Right click on the underlined word for the correct spelling

 

[Don M.]

Right click on the underlined word for the correct spelling

Yup, that works, too. I like WordWeb because it gives me a good definition of the word I'm trying to use, and sometimes I find an even better word that way.

 

[Ken N Tx]

Yup, that works, too. I like WordWeb because it gives me a good definition of the word I'm trying to use, and sometimes I find an even better word that way.

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

I rarely use it. I have spell check but so many times my attempt is so bad it can't figure out the word I'm trying to spell. I don't even go to the dictionary for that, I just go to search and put in a quick sentence using the word I use Wikipedia quite often to find info on a subject that interests me.

 

[Catlady]

Right click on the underlined word for the correct spelling

THANKS for the tip! I used to pride myself in being a good speller, but lately those underlined words have been appearing more often. I try to use my gray matter by ''guessing'' the correct spelling and then go to Google only when stumped.

 

[Ken N Tx]

THANKS for the tip! I used to pride myself in being a good speller, but lately those underlined words have been appearing more often. I try to use my gray matter by ''guessing'' the correct spelling and then go to Google only when stumped.

Ifn ya dont right cluck ya git thiss.