Dear Microsoft Word,
You were first introduced in 1983 so that makes you 26 years old now. At 26, I would expect you to be cutting edge. So don’t you think it’s time that your spell check recognizes the word blogging? Seriously.
When I type the word blogging, I do not in fact mean bogging or logging. I also don’t mean flogging, clogging or slogging. Though I do appreciate your generous suggestions. Also, when I write ‘blog’, I am not actually trying to say bog, bloc, blot, blob. Or blow. Although I do want to thank you for adding to the distaste I already have of the word blog as it is in such close relation to all those other equally unattractive words.
Also? Those red squiggly underlines bring out the ugly in this recovering white-out-user. They are little false alarms all over the page. Like skinny red boys crying wolf on my document, screaming for correction when they’re ALREADY CORRECT.
I admit I’m a Mac user, so this might not mean much coming from me. But I do appreciate all the work you’ve done for me over the years: the centering, the italicizing, and the print previewing. Not to mention all those other words you spell just right for me. But please, for the love of all things current, include blogging in your next spell check upgrade.
thank you and do have a lovely day,
Emily, a Blogger (not to be confused with a Bolger, Logger, Flogger, or Bolgier)
Amen Sister! I am trying this Gravatar thing…We will see if it works the right way!!
This was too funny! Is Word really 26 yrs old? Wow, that makes ME feel old. But then I realize that I am more cutting edge than a 26 yr old b/c I know the words blog, blogging and blogger, and not just what they mean but how to spell them. So in comparison to Bill’s brainchild, that makes me hip AND smart.
You started my day with huge laughter! You’re a real stitch!
too funny.
a fellow clogger, p
lol
Microsoft Word is gonna get it’s feelings hurt.
Great job–someone needs to send this to the word folks. They are probably just too busy talking on their corded rotary phones and eating Domino’s Pizza and wearing their leg warmers and spraying their hair and getting Barry Gibb’s autograph and and reading V.C. Andrews and other 1980′s, out of date funny things.
hysterical.
I resent the “Barry Gibb is out of date” implication. However, yeah. Microsoft Word irks me with that too. Not to mention I work at a science-y place, and you would not believe the science-y words they do not recognize, such as “science-y.”
Amen to that!
I noticed that just the other day. It’s just plain annoying. And we’re relatively happy PC users. And as a perfectionist girl with an English degree, those red squiggles drive. me. crazy.
I agree. Blog and Blogging are words that I have added to my dictionary. Along with Hoo. Because a girl just needs to let out a Woo Hoo on occasion!
I too am a Mac user. I don’t even have Microsoft Word but happily use the “Appleworks” that came with my computer many, many years ago. It works great AND no squiggly lines!
Now… on to the gravatar…seems like something I should investigate.
I’m crazy too….I kinda like it that way. I hope my gravatar works.
Hahaha, very funny Emily! It’s no fun to keep clicking “ignore” over and over. The red lines drive me crazy too but what really gets me is when Blogger highlights the “misspelled” words; when that yellow pops up, I see red!
Have a Happy Day!
~Rachel
I guess it’s too easy to add those to your own personal dictionary
You can do that in Word by the way, but if you ever switch computers, you’ll have to teach the new computer’s dictionary how to spell all over again … oh, and I recommend while you’re teaching, you teach it ya’ll (or y’all) because all good Southern girls say ya’ll when they write 
Funny!!
lol I dont usually spell check my posts because I tend to write the same way I talk……which is a little on the southern side!
I just found your blog through your friend Sissy’s blog. Sissy is a former high school friend of my daughter, Alison, who also has a blog (“The Neurotic Housewife: Where Worry is a Full-Time Job”).
I am, currently, blogless, although I do the Heart matters part of the Walk With Me blog at Today’s Christian Woman online site. All that long-windedness to say I loved what you said about paying attention to the things that make you tear up.
I saw an amazing sunrise this morning and the tears came and I said, “Father, I want to go Home!…uh, but not today.”
I look forward to reading more of your life.
Dear Emily,
I’m glad you’re not a flogger.
Love,
Mary
Word is probably still using the same dictionary it did 26 years ago. Your behind the times, Microsoft!!
Not to knock the wind out of your hilarious sails, but y’know you can turn off the red squiggles too. It’s a Spelling/Grammar Preference called “Check spelling as you type.”
Word can be awfully annoying, but it does the job. Kind of like a good old-fashioned toilet brush. Uh . . . kind of. By that I mean it’s good at what it was made for. Word was made to replace the typewriter. It did. It still does.
For realz!
LOL! In my Random Thoughts Tuesday post from yesterday I posted something similar about the blogger spell check:
* Why is it that blogger says “aren’t” is spelled wrong by underlining it in red, but buuckling passes the spell check? Learn to spell blogger! BTW, it also underlined blogger until I added it to the dictionary.
fun post! i completely agree!
Oh, and I tagged you today in a post…
What really gets me going is when MS Word underlines Obama. For goodness sake, he is the leader of the free world! Figure it out.
cute post!
hilarious.
sooo funny! I have often wondered why those words get underlined in spellcheck..I mean you are so right! It’s 2009!
It has also never recognized INTERNET.