Spell checker here doesn't recognise 'learned' and 'spelled'. Anyone else noticed other errors/omission?

Question

I'm guessing that it's only international english that uses these words (both spellings are correct) and everyone else uses 'spelt' and 'learnt'. I'd just be interested to know.

thanks in advance for taking the time to answer :o)

ps for the doubters here...both versions are most definitely correct.

both 'recognize' and 'recognise' are also correct. americans tend to use 'z' more than we brits, as we usually use an 's' but they are both correct.

my source is the concise oxford english dictionary, 9th edition

Answer 1

I realise (yes, that's correct spelling in proper British English) that the spell checker has a strange bias, even though I'm using the UK and Ireland Yahoo Answers site. I don't like having the spell checker correct my English when I know it wants to change it to American English and it always wants to change offensive to offencive, which I didn't think was any sort of English. It pisses me off more when I see Americans correcting British English, they are humans not computer programmes (also corrrect British English) and ought to realise there is more than one form of "English". My (British) dictionary gives spelled and spelt, and learnt and learned as correct examples.

Answer 2

I've been campaigning against spell checkers for years, and I have compiled a whole long list of words it doesn't recognize, errors it makes, etc. Email me if you want a copy of the list. Spell checkers are useless and they make our minds flabby. Their is no thing wrung wit this sent tense!

Answer 3

In Windows 98 if you typed george bush into the screen and did spell checker it would say an experlative.

Answer 4

Check to see what language you are set to. There's English and "US English". In fact, Microsoft Word 2003 has 18 different versions of English in its spellchecker.

Answer 5

im not so sure bout 'spelled', I've always used 'spelt'(im from India). But I guess 'learned' would be correct depending on what u mean.
e.g. he LEARNT a valuable lesson.
BUT
he is a LEARNED man.

Answer 6

You can always add words to spell check. It's fun to mess with people's computers by adding weird words or using auto replace for 'the' to become 'penis'

Answer 7

I'd actually be interested to know how many people actually use the spell checker for either their entries or their comments

Answer 8

English has diff flavours like Britan Eng, US eng..etc. In US spelled is valid but not in Britan. U may see the diff even in words like Colour--> Color etc..

Answer 9

To TW Y.. The English spell a lot of things with an 's' that we spell with a z, you moron

Answer 10

Spelt is not a word, nor is learnt. They are SPELLED and LEARNED. Geez! And it's "recogniZe"....

Our education system SUCKS, apparently!