What was that?
April 27, 2007
Microsoft wants to understand you. Well, what you say anyway. Regional accents are what make us feel at home – right? Of course, but the people of our nation are often assumed to drink only tea and speak in highly posh accents. Well, Microsoft won’t have our accents go un-noticed any longer. They want you to help them add regional words and phrases to the dictionary for a special British version of Microsoft Office. Cause it’s not like Microsoft have anything better to do is it?
If approved your words will be added to a downloadable dictionary. Just think, the next time that you want to refer to a bread roll, you’ll have a whole range of options like ‘cob’, ‘batch’, ‘bun’, ‘barm cake’, ‘stotty cake’, ‘scuffler’ and ‘bread cake’ to choose from without fearing the tedious red, squiggly line. Or you could just hit ignore or add it to the dictionary yourself, either way.
If you want to contribute, email all your weird and wonderful words and phrases to dialect@microsoft.com.
by: Chris Chapman
