Comments on: Disable Safari’s Spelling Auto-Correct in Mac OS X Lion

By: Fiona

Fiona — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:37:42 +0000

Thanks for these helpful comments.

Does any one know how to get into the local dictionary to change a word it has wrongly stored? (ie it keeps autocorrecting WOULD to WOUDL.

By: Fiona

Fiona — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:37:05 +0000

TRhaks for these helful comments. Does any one know how to get into the local dictionary to change a word it has wrongly stored? (ie it keeps autocorrecting WOULD to WOUDL.

By: Maik

Maik — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:45:13 +0000

Thanks, what a stupid “feature” from Apple -_-

By: Darbo Scalante

Darbo Scalante — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:31:40 +0000

Hell yeah!

Thanks so muhc, sorry, so much!

By: Xanthos

Xanthos — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:15:45 +0000

When I want to write something including ‘a it immediately bocomes á !! The same thing happens with all these:
‘o -> ó
‘e -> é
“a -> ä
“e -> ë
etc…
How can I avoid that??? Please help….
Thank you!!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:44:44 +0000

Still won’t work for me, please help as have Lit review to hand in to Uni and it’s really doing my head in now.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:36:24 +0000

Yes, you have to have clicked into a field where you can input text, then it becomes available to adjust.

By: Clay

Clay — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 03:54:43 +0000

Anyone know what to do if you go to Spelling & Grammar and “Correct Spelling Automatically” is grey and will not allow you to click/uncheck it?

By: Gaius

Gaius — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:21:41 +0000

Thanks. This was starting to get really annoying.

By: the Cosmic Jester

the Cosmic Jester — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 04:32:50 +0000

System Preferences menu, Language & Text, Text tab. Spelling: British English. Done.

By: Set Language Priority in Mac OS X Lion Auto Correct to Prevent Inaccurate Corrections Like “Colour” to “Color”

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:42:33 +0000

[...] you do want to disable autocorrect you can do that too, but remember that autocorrect must be disabled separately in Safari. stLight.options({ publisher:'fe5e0a84-1fac-40de-8014-9f89fc1cbe6a' [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 10:05:52 +0000

Ray it reverts back to American NOT English which, as an Englishman, I find bloody annoying to have my English ‘corrected’ to American.

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:57:33 +0000

Interesting site and your tip seems to work. However, after a restart both Safari and Stickies have to have the spelling checker disabled yet again. Very annoying!

I often use Pages in two languages and need the spell-checker to insert accents (French). However, the spell-checker always reverts back to English. I can even see it change the language in the inspector/text/more tab. Any ideas on how to correct this?

By: Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:12:35 +0000

tHanks for tha raelly graet tip!

By: Mathias

Mathias — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:17:17 +0000

Good one, I figured the defaults write command just didn’t work