Spellchecking

Well, it's that time of year again, time to renew the web hosting. And for those of you that don't know, that has become a lot more expensive than it used to be. Fifty dollars a year is now several hundred. Not to mention the price of domain names has gone up ten-fold.

And I just found out that the nice folks at PayPal disabled all my Support buttons, and I never got a notice (although that may be my fault.) In any case, it is all working again now, so if you would like to make a small donation to help defray these costs, it would be greatly appreciated.

Ha ha ha, I spelled its name wrong. But it caught it!

I've been using the browser extension Grammarly to check spelling and punctuation in the site. This is a big job that will take a week or two in small pieces, but is actually not difficult. In fact, it requires very little thinking, it is almost mechanical. I had the necessary functionality to do this quickly and efficiently already built into the WordPress back-end, this is the first time I am using it.

The situation is not that bad. Grammarly is smart enough to know when you have used the wrong word (spelled right) and flags it. It also does a fair job of sorting out commas. Most of the errors I am correcting are from cut-and-paste and OCR that didn't catch my eye, not my own writing. I'd say Grammarly is right most of the time, and some of the time I just ignore it.


Shipwreck Bidevind
Type:
shipwreck, tanker, Norway
Built:
1938, Germany
Specs:
( 414 x 56 ft ) 4956 gross tons, 36 crew
Sunk:
Thursday April 30, 1942
torpedoed by U-752 - no casualties
GPS:
39°48'57" -72°46'07" (US Navy 2004)
Depth:
190 ft

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