"Can it be that a web site can control/override my setting of spell check in my browser?" I'd noticed spell-check not working on some sites too, but hadn't investigated. As it turns out, they can turn spell-check off, at least in a specific HTML element. Why would a site would want to do that? I don't know, perhaps just to make me feel dumb. Just kidding. :) Spell-check on in this box: Spell-check off in this box: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_global_spellcheck.asp

firefox has one built in, for IE I have used IESpell this one here you can use pretty much on all. After the Deadline ieSpell

Gosh, it could have been worse!! We all have suffered from autocorrect!

I received this long, kind of esoteric text from my 7 year old grandson. He doesn't have a phone, but I figured he was watching something on his tablet and decided to text me. It was a bit troubling to me because he's a good communicator and speller, but some of the things he wrote were a bit morose and I got worried about why he was feeling that way. The next day when I saw him, I asked him about it and what was going on when he texted me. "Oh, g'ma, you know those words that pop up when you're writing? I just clicked on those words that came up!" It was pretty funny, when I realized that's what he'd done, written a whole text with autosuggest. Now when he does it (only a couple of times since) I text his parents and tell them he's drunk texting again.