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[lirazel]

Today in Spellcheck Fails: HOW CAN GOOGLE DOCUMENTS NOT KNOW THE WORD CHIDE???? NO I DO NOT MEAN IBID. SERIOUSLY???

And because it’s freaking out on me about something else, too, let’s have a poll.

[Poll #1970690]

Comments

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

That makes sense to me. I realized earlier that I would use "spilt" in the context of blood but not if someone spilled their dinner all over the floor. Like it definitely sounds more formal to me and works better as an adjective to my ear than "spilled" does. But blood is spilt. I wonder how much of that has to do with how spilling blood isn't an everyday kind of subject to talk about--when I'm hearing it, it's usually in the context of religion or literature, both of which are more formal.