Peanut butter jelly time.

Do so. But are you a jelly or jam?

oh am 100% original jelly!

Jam has tried duplicating me but still can't get it right

oh am 100% original jelly!

Jam has tried duplicating me but still can't get it right

Jam is too sticky anyway and attracts far too many nuisances.

Exactly

P.S. why is it that on Sundays my posts are always posted twice?? I did push the "post comment" button once!

Hi jelly... do you like to work in a photo copy shop...

hi or the song, Must be jelly, cause jam don't shake like that.

I can see you haven't heard this song Mr Sweetiepie Misterwit.

So lovee thea you expect me to listen to the song before I respond to this discussion....

Is this site sponsored by MTV or Billboard....

I thought we are having a discussion...but now can see that we are judging a rubbish song...

I didn't say you had to listen to it Mr Misterwit, my son listened to it and sang along with it and then sang it without it and told me to put up a discussion about it, and as a loving mama I did so.

are you a seal?

no, but I am raw puddy in the hands of thea,queen of greek wit! She is SOO frustrated with me, I cannot please her and have lost her favour and she is calling me a Swede or a Dutchman.....which of course I am.. You see, I have no comeback. Or perhaps she is planning the comeback,, yes,, as a seal!!

Hi fjaril, why are you complaining about me to the rabbit? What on earth were you doing playing that vile song, where does it come from? My son told me saw it on the TV and looked it up on the computer as he knew it would drive me mad. HE won't be so happy about driving me mad when he is forced to eat herrings for two weeks. I did mention I was packing him off to Sweden for his holidays did I? I see no need to eat peanut butter having got away without it so long, and as it is imported it was quite pricey. I never eat jam either, as prefer marmalade but interestingly enough the Greek word for jam is 'marmalatha'.

complain away sealie - i'll help. btw are you a swede or a dutchman or both? got confused there.

Now you know you haven't lost my favour at all fjaril, but you will if you try to force feed me gloop on my DAIM bars.

jb.. O rabbits and seals understand each other, that’s all.. not so much a complaint as it was an explanation of why I am eating herring. it is punishment, perhaps.
I didn’t know Thea could see and hear us, jb... I blew our cover!! GASP!
and now I have confused you, I was born a Dutchman for the sake of my mother and my father was Swedish, so I followed in his footsteps., living in the lands of herring and windmills and wooden shoes and vikings and forests over mountains and taking to the sea..The best of both worlds, you see...and then also in the Maple Leaf Land as a Canadian.. I have been one busy fjäril!! but then fjärils DO that sort of thing.. silly me, you being a bunny. Have you met my Lolli??

Lots of hopping I have done in my years.. I guess YOU know what that’s like, right?

O Thea, Queen of Mountain Asphalt! It was but an exchange of basic information as we animals do.
Nothing wrong there.

AND I had to find out about that song.. you gave me no LINK!! SHEEeesh! How else can I be empathetic with you if I have nothing, no understanding...?? Inquiring minds need t know things!
Now if jingleson comes to Sweden you will explain to him that THAT horrible jingle will NOT be played here. It will be ice hockey instead!


see.. now I knew if I pestered you long enough you would give in and share your information.. yes!! Leif the Lucky!!! I now know the Greek word for ‘jam’..TADAAH!! I WIN!! I RULE!!

and for that, I return to youthe Greek hocky player along with DAIM bars with extremely far dated expiry dates! And SWEDISH ICE CREAM, ..mmmm to die for and one can sprinkle a little bit of crushed Daim on the ice cream... I swear, there is only ONE thing better!

You were complaining that you had lost my favour which you have not, though I have lost my alerts. As for chatting with the bunny, did I not put up a whole discussion in her honour last night, thinking she was still away.


I still await your Swedish smorgasboard discussion with bated breath, though if the rest of it is anything like coconut with tomatoes I can understand why it's not world famous with restaurants in every land.

thea, thankyou for that discussion. also please tell me you are joking about coconut and tomatoes?

sealie - maybe we shouldn't have gossiped in her discussion? and yes i have done a fair bit of hopping - 7 years and 4 countries. + this one.

I joke not jb, last night fjaril ate Italian food of coconut and tomatoes on pasta which is most obviously not Italian and proved to be Swedish, he did however have dessert of DAIM bar pie. So jb can one get DIME bars readily in the UK these days, I have a particular fondness for them.

erhum!! hallo!! Thea, are you gossipping again with jp the world travellerbunny??I think it no idea to discuss Italian food when YOU yourself are showing a partiality to the delicacy of peanut butter and jelly,, and would that be strawberry??
Well jb is feigning interest, as she cannot nor does she want to eat said fruit of the earth. since she has travelled that earth to hell and back if you listen to HER tell it!!

Had you but chosen another topic like coconut MILK, for example, but,, profound feelings of inadequacy.. and you know what THAT can do to a man. have you no mercy..

Coconut milk is most excellent in Thai curries.

aha! So you now are admitting to the fact that Swedes also could like it in a sauce with stewed tomato bits..made in their own kitchens.. yes,, the coconuts have been available to us for a century or so and I even like it raw.. the milk however belongs in recipes! eeeeven Swedish ones.. thankyou dear friend.

O I think I love it when you forgive and forget..you DID, right?

Didn't notice we'd fallen out, I've just got used to wearing you down with banter, but no, I cannot imagine coconut milk with tomatoes in.

Neither did I! fall out together with you, I mean. Are we not having just fun here? Have you no desire to try coconut mik with anything tomato-ish?

Coconut milk is only fit for one thing, into the wok with some powerful Thai curry paste and pre cooked onions, add prawns, lime leaves, a little sugar, before the final touch of spinach. Green, orange or red are all good.

But where are the tomatoes! I was once half of an Italian family.!!. I cannot imagine this without tomatoes. why, you aren't ALL that far away from Italy..I could swim you some over..FPS!!

Tomatoes are best eaten cut with seeds removed, with basil and rock salt and a liberal coating of my oil.

okej,, I will trade you YOUR seeds for MY basil! and as far as the oil?? a little dab 'll do ya!!

Done, all my basil is dead and as I foolishly didn't freeze any I'm reduced to dried so may as well not bother. Tell me seriously you don't eat those slimey seeds thoough?

aaah you have dead basil?? that must be the punishment doled out by the Swedish dill you badmouthed whilst in the other café today!

Yes... I slurp the seeds raw and fresh or I cook them,stew them, sauce them, and fry them..
" Waste not .. want not!" That spells out when you drip out the seeds and let them dry!

I read this friendly banter all over again and enjoyed it very much! We deserved to do this and we earned the fun. Thanks for the memory.. until we meet again..da,da....
..and thanx, truly, yes, for your great honour to me, of best response. I am indeed flattered and thrilled, coming from YOU, Thea.

Boobie Fest Haven?

See that you're sporting a BFH avatar today Lamby. Very fetching.

jelly is too wobbly for a sandwich. jam might be ok.

jb, you are referring to jell-o, which isn't jelly, and jelly also isn't jam...there are 3 j's, not two...

jello is a brand name. i don't call things by brand names - a computer program is not a microsoft, a packet of crisps is not a walkers, a dodgy website is not a wnd. jello is a brand of jelly. case closed.

jell-o is a generic term, as well as a brand name, for wobbly fruit flavored stuff made from horse hooves...actually the bones and hides of animals...seriously

AND jell-o is a brand of gelatin...not a brand of jelly...

So what are you actually putting with this butter stuff on your sandwiches, is it so difficult to get a straight answer or is it a secret guarded by Americans. Is jelly jelly, jam, or jello?

Zeph, you're saying a dog makes that foul noise

It is normally jelly jelly...haven't ever tried it with jell-o...although it is also good with jam...

thea, here's how yahoo.com explains jelly, jam and preserves-

" Jelly, jam and preserves are all made from fruit mixed with sugar and pectin. The difference between them comes in the form that the fruit takes.

Specifically, the fruit in jelly comes in the form of fruit juice. Jam, on the other hand, uses fruit pulp or crushed fruit, which explains why it's "less stiff" than jelly. Finally, in fancy-pants preserves, the fruit comes in syrup-laden chunks. "

Peanut butter isn't butter it's just mashed peanuts with some other stuff in it, and I don't know why it's called peanut butter because there's not butter in it LOL

Jello is what lamby said it was gelatin. Some flavored power that comes in a box and you add water and throw it in the refrigerator/ice box whatever you call it.

No, the dog just sings the song on the show, I didn't even know that a "group" actually did the song since I have only heard it on "Family Guy"

:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_1rSm2MDM4
:http://ask.yahoo.com/20050404.html

Thank you for bothering to look all that up Zeph, jello sounds thoroughly disgusting and preserves are what I am used to, but call jam. I'm suprised to know that peanut butter has no butter in it as I thought the EU banned any incorrectly named food products, or maybe they gave that up as a bad job, I seem to remember it from somewhere though. Maybe it was just the place of origin, as in it's illegal to sell other bubbly and label it Champagne if it doesn't actually come from Champagne in France. That may have been it.

Jello isn't bad if you're sick or it's very hot outside. If you put some cool whip (brand name for whip cream) it's even better

Finally someone willing to clarify the jelly situation. So when you say jelly, as in preserve, to go with peanut butter, you mean jam. But then again jam is most easily spread. HElP me out here Amber, jelly IS jam, is that right?

See this is where I get a little confused. Jelly, Jam, Preserves, their all the same to me, Thea. They can all be spread... I guess some easier then other. We usually get Jelly tho...

So you're confused as well now. Jelly to me is a dessert which sits in a bowl and wobbles. As far as I knew JEllo was something which they seem to serve in American hospitals. And jam is a preserve which goes on buttered toast. I suspect it could be the latter that you put with peanut butter but am clueless as you now say they are all the same thing.

I go with you Thea. Jelly is a dessert which wobbles. Jam is made from fruit and is a spread. Let's forget about jello. Gelatine is a powder which is used to thicken things - as in making a wobbly jelly from fruit juice.

Hi dlr, believe me you don't ever want to hear that song, it is truly dreadful and consists of just the one line repeated endlessly.
I have only just discovered that peanut butter has no butter in it, and you are the first American here to apparently know what jam is, so bravo. Despite repeated explanations of what jelly actually is I can now conclude from what you so clearly say is that jelly is simply jam without the chunky bits in.

hi cloudwatcher I am an American and I call the thick gooey stuff jam jam. and the clear wiggly fruit jelly I call jelly. so there too and so how.also jelly is jelly not Jello which is gelatin. now all clear on this. also when peanuts are finely ground and mixed with a bit of oil it is the consistency of butter that is why we call it peanutbutter. Us screwy Americans.

Hi cloudwatcher, an interesting response with an Australian take. Well as far as I know there is no such thing as either cotton candy of fairy floss in Greece, and in the UK it was always known as candy floss, which I think is the best of the three versions here. My son has expressed a wish to taste that as he's read about it, but no wish at all to taste peanut butter.
If I had a carpet, which I don't, I would most definitely hoover it, regardless of what I was using to do it with, it's just one of those terms which sticks.
Australians in coach parties used to call crisps chips and of course be directed to the frozen food section for frozen chips, to their complete bewilderment.

Creamed honey, is that the dreaded honey of my childhood, I think it must be. I asked to try honey and this cream stuff was purchased and put into a sandwich. It was the most ghastly thing I had ever tasted, but as I had asked for it I was meant to eat it. I remember it to this day. It is only three years ago that I began to eat honey, real clear runny hunny, which I now have every day in yogurt. It took me that long to overcome my aversion and realise they were two different things. They don't sell creamed honey out here.

LOL! We call it cotton candy here, Cloud- because after it's spun, it looks like a cotton ball and "candy" because it's spun sugar, but I think you knew that already.:-) Never heard of Fairy Floss,--is that because it's made from fairies and string, or dental floss? But, why don't any of us call it Spun Sugar, as that's what it is? I don't get it either.

I have also wondered why the British say "hoovering", despite whatever brand is used. We have Hoover vacuums, but we also have many other brands. Here, we vacuum.

As for the peanut paste, we still call it peanut butter anyway. lol There are two kinds, smooth and crunchy--peanut paste is crunchy peanut butter. I love it with creamed honey and now you've gone and made me hungry! lol

Creamed honey is still just runny honey, but has been whipped with air, so that it is a little more solid--at least that's what it is here, nothing else is added to it that I know.

HOLLY: That is my understanding of creamed honey too. Spun sugar? An apt name, but would it be so popular? Fairies don't do anything for me (I'm too much of a realist) but doesn't Fairy Floss capture the desires of the kids - which isn't a good thing really, because who wants them eating so much sugar? (Even though growing sugar was our living for so many years) Hoovering the carpet has always puzzled me. What a great advertisement for Hoover!

THEA, maybe you'd like to try it by creaming it yourself, in a blender? Why bother. Just try the crunchy peanut paste with clear honey. Here we call both the fried potato chips and the crispy ones in a packet "chips" and I've often thought a bit of the English (crisps) and a bit of the American (fries) would be a good thing. I suppose Dysoning the carpet or Electroluxing the carpet would sound odd. I'll stick to the good old fashioned vacuuming.

HATLEY I agree. Jam is jam; jelly is jelly. We don't use the term jello at all, but I do know it is Gelatine.

I have a feeling that as long as the word "sugar" is used in the title of anything, children will still want it.:-(

And then there's the word, lorry--I have no idea where that originates. We use the word truck. And I was quite confused as a girl when I was told I had a "ladder" in my stocking, by a British friend, as ladders are wooden or metal contraptions used to climb up higher. Imagine having one in my stocking! So what is the word for a ladder there?

I also don't know how we came to call cars "cars", out of the word automobile, unless it's short for carrier?

Hard to believe we all started out with the same language at one time!:-)

Ladders are ladders, whether to climb or in the stocking. I suppose the ladder in the stocking came about because it really does look like a ladder.

I know lorry is English but we call them trucks. The English pick-up is a ute here (utility: ute for short). What is it there?

A suitcase here is a port (although now it is more often a case) I carried a port to school. Any advances?

Car is an interesting one. Carrier sounds logical, but who knows? And of course, our boot is your trunk.

Do you have lollies there?

I've never heard of a port for a suitcase,that's really a first. A' port bagaz' though is Greek for a boot, or what you call a trunk, in a car, so I presume your port originates from Greek though our word for suitcase is 'valista' which probably means the Frenc stole that one.

We climb up ladders but they usually have 3 legs on them, and I haven't a clue what we get in stockings as usually it's trousers, bare legs or, for little old ladies, pop socks. I expect you'll both want to know what a pop sock is.
I have no explanation for car and can't say it derives from the Greek as we were probably the last to get them, and a pick up is what we would call making kamaki, although it doesn't actually result in anyone being picked up most of the time, but they like to keep trying.

I've had another one disappear! Shades of yuwie!

Sorry Thea but I think port most likely comes from French - portmanteau

You have ladders with three legs? How? Where? I can't imagine a 3-legged ladder. I don't think I'd trust one!

Pop socks? Ankle socks? - like the American Bobby Sox?

A pick up is a pick up anywhere I suppose, but the English call the ute a pick up - for picking up THINGS I suppose.

I don't know what a bobby sox is for sure but presume it is just a female sock. I cannot believe you haven't heard of pop socks though - they are the same material as tights but only come up to just below the knee. I think they were meant to be for women to wear under trousers with shoes but here the old ladies wear them with skirts which just looks bizarre.
As for an ute,or a pick up truck, we call them cars

I forgot the three legged ladder, they are used for olive picking and wobble a lot, they put them under trees to climb up to pick the olives, and are sometimes left hanging from a tree as the ladder falls over. It is rare to see a real ladder as they won't fit in the cars.

I love learning all these language differences!

A ladder in a stocking here is called a "run". such as a loose thread ran up the stocking. But, you're right, it does look like a ladder.

The Ute in Australia is also called a pick-up truck here. But, we also have vehicles that are large like a truck, and have an enclosed back and those are called SUVs (Sports/Utilities Vehicles)--and they are different from a van. lol

A suitcase is still a suitcase here, more than one is usually called luggage, one may also be called a bag. Children carry "book bags" here to school. A port has one of 3 meanings--a place to dock ships, a place to insert a computer wire, or a medical device inserted under the skin in order to dispense medication more easily.

Yes, your boot is our trunk and your bonnet is our hood. lol

If lollies are candy on a stick--they are lollipops here and we have every flavor you can think of.

Pop socks are called "knee-highs" here (I know, we're so imaginative!) and are made out of nylon and are different from cotton ankle socks or Bobby Sox. They are meant to be worn under trousers or slacks or pants--we use all 3 terms. I have also seen older ladies where them with dresses, but it's not considered good form unless the ladie's dress is long enough to cover the tops of the knee-highs.

Well, ladies--it's been fun, maybe we can get together for another language lesson soon!:-)

OK so pop socks are Knee-Hi's - but why "pop"?
Did the grandfathers wear them? (Pop or Poppy is a favourite name for grandfathers here) Or are they Pop socks because those who wear them drink Pop? (soft drinks/sodas) I can't believe they go "Pop"

We have lollypops too Holly, but all sweets (English) or candies (US) are collectively called lollies.

Most children these days do not carry a port to school but have a back-pack. A carry suitcase (as distinct from one on wheels) is still called a port in Queensland but a case in NSW.

What about a biro and a Nikko?

That's a good question about Pop socks--wonder what thea will say--if she knows. All I can think is that they are easy to "pop" on and "pop" off. I doubt that Grandfathers wear them--well, at least they don't here. Pop or Poppy is a common name for Grandfather here as well, in fact that's what my grand daughters call my husband. I'm Gigi, he's Pops. They also have a Meme, a Pepe, a "big" Grandma, and a "little" grandma--not to mention a huge conglomeration of "adopted" aunts and uncles.

Backpacks are also a very popular term for book bags, as well--in fact, I probably should have used that term first.

I did not know that all lollies covered all candies or sweets.

As for birro--isn't that an ink pen to write with? You've got me as far as a Nikko goes--a common brand name for something?

Yes, Holly, all ball point pens are called a Biro, regardless of make. A Nikko pen is a permanent felt tip marker pen - well here in Queensland it is, but in NSW they look at me as if I'm mad. There it is simply a marker.

A Pappous (Granddad) as opposed to a Pappas (Church man in long black dress and beard) has never been spotted in pop socks round here. Anyone fancy telling a Yiayia that it's not really fashionabe to wear a pop sock with knees showing, thought not. And I've never come across Cloudwatchers name for a marker pen.
I was however just in the shop and the peanut butter caught my eye at an expensive 4 euros and 86 cents for the smallest jar, now one euro this morning equalled $1.68 so would you say you are encouraging me to buy luxury items or is that pretty much standard. Sorry I didn't notice the Australian exchange rate.

And I forgot, a hood is a thing attached to a coat, usually of the children's variety, which can be pulled over the head when it is cold or raining and is guaranteed to mess up the hair style, a huge annoyance to my ten year old now as he thinks he's just invented style.

The meaning for Nikko is new to me! Here we call them all markers, although we just say permanent marker, if it has permanent ink. We also call them magic markers, used mostly by children in place of crayons, or highlighters for those used by college students to "highlight" sentences in their books--they have ink that is easy to see through.

Still didn't hear an explanation for "pop socks" from thea, but now we know who wears them and who doesn't and how.:-)

A hood can also be on a coat or jacket to cover up the head, both for children and adults here--but, it also covers up the engine on a car. And then we also have a "range hood", which goes over a stove(cooker) and usually includes a light and an exhaust fan to get rid of smoke or grease while cooking. "Hood" is also short for hoodlum, which I believe has the same meaning for all of us. And it has become popular in certain circles to say "hood", as a short term for "neighborhood".

As for the cost of peanut butter there in Greece--that's outrageous! Normally, a small jar here would be about half the cost of a small jar there. Do your prices change every day, according to the exchange rate? That doesn't happen here--it normally takes awhile for it to filter down to the customers.

I forgot to say that "Bic" is a popular brand name for ink pens here, but most people just say "pen" for any type of writing pen. Bic also makes disposable cigarette lighters, so if you hear someone say "flick your bic", they mean they need a light, in order to smoke.

I agree that is an outrageous price for peanut paste. Here it is cheaper, or as cheap as, jam. Don't they grow peanuts in Greece? If they are imported, it might account for the high price. Our biggest peanut growing district is about 2-3 hours drive from here. Peanuts are never imported here. In fact, we export.

Hi Cloud! Yes, I do believe thea said somewhere in this discussion that all peanut butter is imported there. I'm not sure if they grow any or not--I don't recall seeing any other kinds of nuts but almonds, when I lived there. It probably also depends on where the peanut butter comes from, as to how expensive it is. If it comes from the US, it probably costs more in Greece than many other places as the Greeks have carried a long grudge against the US--so probably raise the import tax to discourage their people from buying it. At that price, I wouldn't buy it either!

Gosh ladies, this list seems to be expanding. Now what to address.
First Holly you weren't paying attention, I explained what a pop sock is, it is a slightly below knee version of a stocking which stays up by means of elastic at the top, but they generally fall down. They should never be worn with skirts but invarialby are in this neck of the woods.
A cigarette lighter is simply an 'anapteareapa' and goes by no other name at all, but always remember when purchasing one to ask for one from the back of the box as the ones at the front will have been used a lot by the person on the checkout to light their cigarettes whilst serving. This only happens in the independantly owned supermarkets I should add.
A hood is only an attached hat and for your hoodlums we have yobs and lager louts, but they are invariably imported along with the peanut butter. The latter is indeed pricey and I only meant the exchange rate changes so you could compare the price in dollars. When the prices do change here they only go up, frequently, and imported things are much more expensive and we don't make peanut butter here and I've never heard of a Greek person touching the stuff as it isn't Greek. I think that clarifies most points. Oh forgot the extractor fan, which is just exactly that and not a hood.

Now thea my dear--if I am mistaken, I will say so, but I believe you are the one who lost attention, as both Cloud and I have heard your explanation about "POP" socks, but have been waiting for the explanation about WHY they are called that--if you look further up in the box--you will see what I mean.
The British seem to have the best terms for explaining certain things. I like lager louts especially, well--not them, the meaning of them. We just call them drunks or bar room brawlers.

And the Greeks make many wonderful things--no need to jump on the peanut butter band wagon that I can see.

I have no idea why pop socks are called pop socks.

Hi Hatley, well Zeph did say that the ghastly song was from an American TV programme and that a dog sang it so where some pop group comes into it I have no clue, but anything which repeats one line over and over should most definitely be consigned to the dustbin of songs.
Fortunatley I don't know the Oscar Meyer song you speak of. For now my son remains addicted to green peppers as part of his lunch every day.

Hi Holly, me, include a link

I was just thinking of you as have been doing a little writing which forces me to use American spelling, which really goes against the grain and is so unnatural to me. But I never realised that the end of realised is actually realized in American. So which do you use Holly, colour or color?
I know that peanut butter was around in the UK but never tried it and even though its now been explained I really don't fancy it. I'm quite content to eat a piece of toast with butter and marmalade, the chunky orange stuff. If it's one of those nasty ones which isn't firm and chunky I suppose I could see why people call it jelly, but for me jelly will always be that wobbly dessert which I never took to at all. Pie, or pitta, in Greece, can be either sweet or savoury, and I'm a big fan of Greek apple pie which bears no resmemblance to an American apple pie, but as I'm not a big pastry fan, except on Cornish pasties, I don't bother with the savoury Greek pies.

It's nice to know you've been thinking of me, but I guess not in a favorable light, as it goes against the grain for you to use American spelling! lol

I use color, and flavor, etc, but find myself spelling "behavior" as "behaviour" a lot. lol Many English words that end in ise are changed to ize here. I can't explain the changes, unless it's from Revolutionary times, when it was very popular to do everything different from the British--and it just stuck. I notice that Cloudwatcher uses British spellings, but that may be that she first came from England, or whether all Australians do. I also don't know if it's true in other English speaking countries or not.

As for me, I prefer a little butter and orange marmalade on toast, myself. I especially like blood orange marmalade, which we could get in Italy, but haven't found here.

Yes Holly, I use English spelling and English grammar and English pronunciation, even though the latter gets me into friendly strife sometimes. Officially, here in Australia the English spelling is followed, but the American is becoming used more and more. The differences are most marked in the our/or, the ise/ize and the doubling of letters, particularly the "l" - and for the life of me I can't think of an example at the moment. Since myLot is American, I get the red wiggly lines every time I double the "l" so I should remember some.

Thea, on the rare occasions I eat toast, I'll have it with ginger marmalade (surprised, Holly?)

Cloud, I would be more surprised to find out i you didn't! LOL

Sorry, time to clean the keyboard again--that was supposed to be IF you didn't.:-)

@cloudwatcher, how do you go about getting wiggly red lines on here please?

I don't 'go about" getting them - they just appear, under any spelling mistake.

I'm not techno, so I don't know how, but they do the same on Microsoft programs. I presumed everyone got them here too. They appear as you type but do not shop when posted.

Ask someone who knows. Holly probably does. I'm sure Dawn would.

i like it too it is my favorite

Well, as Dawn hasn't been by here to see this, please allow me to share my VAST knowledge of computers and say that I actually know the answer to this!! I know, I'm more surprised than you.

One only gets the little red wavy lines if you have a spellchecker program in use. I get the little red lines when I am trying to spell English words, just like Cloud does when she tries to spell American ones, as it's based on the language one uses primarily. It's hard for me, considering my obsessive/compulsive personality to post an answer that I know has little red wavy lines, but they disappear once you post.:-)

Thanks Holly. I know my Office program has a spell checker even though I've never used it. IF needed, which isn't very often, I prefer to use the hard copy sitting in my drawer next to me. I do sometimes use the thesaurus part of the spell checker. I didn't know they would work while on the net, but I suppose it is logical.

Oh - I've just noticed they aren't wavy red lines, they are a red dotted line - just shows how much notice I take of them, doesn't it?

lol--well, here I thought they were red wavy lines--guess that gives you a good idea what my eyesight is like!:-) Some computers already have the program installed, such as in Windows XP like mine, the spellchecker works on mine automatically, I have to manually turn it off, in order for it not to work.

I don't mind it, but I do find it annoying sometimes. I also keep a small dictionary and thesaurus nearby, but I think that's a good idea for folks who write a lot anyway.

I think I'll just google a word if I need the wrong spelling, otherwise the thing would be correcting my English all the time which would drive me batty. I only wanted it for one thing anyway and I refuse to type in American the rest of the time.

Well, it's only the "wrong" spelling, if you're not American! lol

I simply refuse to accept that colour should ever be spelt color, or that a story can be anyting but that unless it is a storey.