HMS Warspite's bios: Augur, Averell; Ayres; Bailey; Baird

[Jonathan Palfrey]

We are well off topic by now.

However, I did a quick Web search and found two solutions to your problem.

1. You can have more than one custom dictionary in Word.

2. You can edit your custom dictionary with WordPad (not with Word) and manually add more words to it, taking it over Word's size limit.

There's also my own more radical solution:

3. Turn off the spelling checker and use a dictionary if you feel uncertain about any particular word. I also habitually reread anything I've written, catching most typos.

P.S. The same Web page says that custom dictionaries are limited to 64 kilobytes in size. That should give you space for about 5000 words, depending on the size of the words. If you come to a stop after a few hundred words, something is wrong: probably your dictionary file is corrupt or something.

[Gil R.]

ORIGINAL: Jonathan Palfrey

We are well off topic by now.

However, I did a quick Web search and found two solutions to your problem.

1. You can have more than one custom dictionary in Word.

2. You can edit your custom dictionary with WordPad (not with Word) and manually add more words to it, taking it over Word's size limit.

There's also my own more radical solution:

3. Turn off the spelling checker and use a dictionary if you feel uncertain about any particular word. I also habitually reread anything I've written, catching most typos.

P.S. The same Web page says that custom dictionaries are limited to 64 kilobytes in size. That should give you space for about 5000 words, depending on the size of the words. If you come to a stop after a few hundred words, something is wrong: probably your dictionary file is corrupt or something.

Thanks for checking -- it never would have occurred to me. 64KB strikes me as microscopic, based on today's memory capabilities.

Like you, I never rely on spellcheckers (or spell-checkers, I'm too lazy to check), but I do like the fact that those red lines might tip me off to errors. But when dealing with so many non-English words as well as personal names, the screen can be full of red, which is why I like to add those words to the dictionary so that they don't distract me. I'll look into this site's tips.

[HMSWarspite]

Sorry, I missed some of the questions (seeing only the shuffled words). As a general point, I dont mind you changing anything you see fit. Here are the answers to your actual points.

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

Note that I rewrote the previous sentence to make it flow more smoothly.

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Is this an actual nickname, in which case it should be in quotes?.

Yes, although I don't know how widespread. It was certainly used at the time, although doesn't seem to have lasted as well as some others!

Do you know Williams’s rank? I believe he would have been a brigadier general.

Yes - a quote from a web site (http://bhere.com/plugugly/williams/williamsbio.html) "Remarkably, Williams never received promotion to Major General, other than an honorary Brevet, mostly due to his refusal to curry favor with the press and his not having the connections in a West Point dominated military. That he had been a Democrat politician did not help either. Beloved by his troops, highly regarded and honored by his fellow officers, this neglect is glaring."

Note that I added Hill’s rank at the time of the battle. Ideally, we should always provide that sort of information.

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I am deleting the following sentence because it’s not especially relevant, and therefore this seems a good way of shortening the entry a little: “Sherman also commanded a division under Banks in this campaign.”

OK

[Gil R.]

Thanks! The bios in this thread are all ready for the patch, then.

[chris0827]

  I am deleting the following sentence because it’s not especially relevant, and therefore this seems a good way of shortening the entry a little: “Sherman also commanded a division under Banks in this campaign

 
It was Thomas Sherman as well. Not the famous Sherman.

[HMSWarspite]

Oops [:(]