An Owed To The Spelling Checker

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...~ ~ Most of us write our Ciao opinions in Word before cutting and pasting them onto the site, if for no other reason than it allows us to “spell check” our work, in order that we can avoid silly spelling mistakes. The “spell checker” is an excellent tool, and 99 times out of a 100 it will pick up on any obvious or glaring spelling or grammatical errors, but as the little poem below shows, it is by no means infallible. By the way, I don’t claim the credit for this little ditty for myself. I came across it somewhere on the Web a few months back, and was so amused by it that I pasted it into Word, and have since sent it to a few of my online friends for their amusement. Since it doesn’t earn any money either from reads or from the Premium Fund, I saw no harm in sharing it with my fellow Ciaoers. Try...

the_mad_cabbie 15.11.2001 · Read review
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Review of Poetry

The Art that is Checkers

Advantages: Simple yet mind-boggling, very little luck involved
Disadvantages: Many results end in draws

...Checkers, or as it is known in the UK, Draughts is a strategy game that is very similiar to chess and that has amazingly been around for a very, very long time. Checkers is somewhat like an art really. In order to be really good at it, one must know the 'tricks of the trade', which can only be acquired by playing the game a lot, and by reading checkers literature too. It is once these tricks are found out, that checkers really becomes a beautiful and amusing game. A small history lesson It seems that Checkers could have been played as far back 1600 BC by the Pharoahs in Egypt. There are also references to the game in the Dialogues of Plato and in Homers 'The Odyssey'. However, modern draughts seems to have started in Spain with the publications of Anton Torquemada, as 'recently' as 1547. The first world...

jeffe 11.06.2005 · Read review
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Review of Checkers

Spelling Bee

Advantages: Helps children learn how to put words together
Disadvantages: Not enough letters can be frustrating.

...***Background*** Early Learning Centres have been around for a long time now and they are well known for making sure that a toy is suitable because of learning through imagination and play. They have a wide range of products from wooden play sets to jigsaws and various games that encourage children in a back to basics way. ***What's In The Box*** It tells you on the front of the box that there are 28 picture cards and 92 letter pieces inside. Each piece is roughly a two-inch square with a jigsaw style shape to them on the left and right sides so that any two letters or pictures can be joined up together. The picture cards all have the word spelled out underneath the picture and this is to help children learn to spell the words. Each of the 92 letters is written in lower case with large red lettering. These really stand...

belfin 09.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Early Learning Centre Spell & Learn

Spell Checker

Advantages: Good fun, good versus evil, inventive and funny
Disadvantages: None

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Borg 24.04.2004 · Read review
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Review of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J.K. Rowling

im under their spell

Advantages: great products,service is good
Disadvantages: takes longer to get to uk

...****Spell Cosmetics Mineral Eyeshadow **** I first came across these eye shadows through a friend. Her make up was amazing so i asked her where she got her eye shadow and she recommended the spell cosmetics site. **The brand** Spell cosmetics as the name suggests sells mainly cosmetics and also facial products. I think most of their make up is mineral make up but looking at the prices they are quite cheap compared to other sites. As far as i know they are only available online and they are based in America which isn't a problem to be honest as they deliver internationally. **The product** The eye shadows i got came in individual pots and i think that this is the only way they sell them.They are little round pots with sc on the top and the colour of the eye shadow on the bottom-you can also see the product through the pot and when you...

katie22008m 16.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Spell Cosmetics Shadow Supreme Kit

A spelling test with a difference!

Advantages: good story suitable for beginning readers
Disadvantages: none

...Flora is a small fairy who, like lots of other young children, has a lot of learning to do! She goes to school with all her friends but one day she hears some news that she does not like at all. There is to be a test for all the young fairies and this makes Flora very worried. Everyone has to cast a spell where they turn Smorky, the class pet dragon, into a small unicorn and then turn him back again. Although her teacher Miss Glitter provides a lot of practice, Flora is very worried even after Mum, Dad, Nana and Grandpop all help her. The day of the test looms and the big question is whether Flora can overcome her nerves and get the spell right? This delightful little story really appealed to my five year old daughter. Flora is a sweet character and one that many small girls could probably identify with. Also, the fact that there is...

kingfisher111 07.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Flora the Fairy's Magic Spells - Tony Bradman, Emma Carlow

Totally under the spell of Spellforce

Advantages: Original idea, cross genre gameplay
Disadvantages: Some bugs although they are fixing these

...the options of building a base and an army. This is similar to many other titles in the real time strategy camp and include gathering resources, in this case wood, iron, stone, moonsilver, aria, lenya and food. Different races require different resources in varying amounts but this will become obvious as you play the game. As you have probably guessed I like this game a great deal, however it is not without certain bugs and flaws. These include firstly, several misprints and typing errors in the manual, which begs the question if they bothered to run a spell checker on it at all. To me this just gives the impression of a rushed job on the manual. Secondly, the text in the game at certain points becomes German. Whilst the spoken word is still in English it does get quite confusing. Now I will stress that this is only on rare occasions, and that...

pumfster 05.02.2004 · Read review
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Review of SpellForce: the Order of Dawn (PC)

You put a spell on me, or my son at least!

Advantages: Interactive and cheap!
Disadvantages: None!!!

...As it is getting dangerously close to my daughters 7th birthday party, I decided to go to my local pound land for the final "bits" needed for party bags. Whenever we visit this shop, my kids go stir crazy and end up fleecing me for various things, usually the activity sets they sell there, on this occasion my son headed straight to the book section. I was gob smacked to find that he had found a high quality book, nestled amongst the tat that usually resides there, there is always a high number of z list celebrity biographies in there! My son was very excited to find a book featuring "Meg and Mog", which he has just started reading, so immediately picked it up and popped it into my basket. The book I will now review is "Meg and Mog - spin-a-spell book" ~~~~~~ THE BRAND ~~~~~~ The "Meg and Mog" brand has been around...

sarahbarrow 03.06.2008 (07.07.2008) · Read review
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Review of Meg and Mog Spin a Spell Book - Ladybird

Mildred Hubble Spells Trouble

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Thehonesttruth 15.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch - Jill Murphy

Simple game to play difficult to master

Advantages: Very simple to set up and play
Disadvantages: Not as compelling as chess

...Checkers is a game of strategy and skill for two players. Setup You play on the same board as a chessboard (i.e. A square board divided into sixty four even squares forming an 8 x 8 grid. You are given twelve pieces each and place them on the first three rows closest to you on every other square so that they diagonally touch. Object of the game The object of the game is simple. Remove all the pieces of your opponents before they remove yours. The rules Every piece can move diagonally one place into an empty square. If your piece is diagonally adjacent to an opponents pieces and the square one place diagonally in the same direction is empty, you must jump the opponent’s piece, thus removing it from the game. If jumping places you in the same circumstance, you can continue to jump. You can only move forward unless...

Simoncook1 09.03.2001 · Read review
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Review of Checkers