I don’t mean as a program like Microsoft Word, but as a job. If someone says, “I found a job as a word processor,” what is this person doing? (My first guess would be typing).

Is there any difference between "processor" and "processer"? Some spelling dictionaries only have the -or form, and some have both. Is it a US vs UK English thing? Or something else? More specif...

Recently, I was auto-corrected by a word processor when I typed in "now days" to "nowadays." Why did it do this to me? "Nowadays" looks and sounds silly, incorrect, and made-up to me. Which versi...

Instinctively it feels lame and wrong. Word keeps asking me to consider revising the fragment. As I am not a native English speaker, I realize I have to ask questions when I get stuck and practice writing …

Jan 23, 2024 · An answer to an SE Writing question shows a particularly bad word processor at work, hyphenating so-me. Good hyphenation should cue the brain as to how the word might continue, not …

Jul 16, 2012 · Consider the following: Imagine that you are sitting at your word processor and you need to make a word bold. Imagine that you are sitting at your word processor and you need to bold a …

Aug 25, 2013 · A word processor is the machine equivalent of a typesetter; what is the human equivalent of a copier? This word could describe the jobs of monks who copied the Bible, for …

Apr 15, 2012 · The word size table you point to shows hardware word sizes. This is because in computing 'word' is used to refer to the natural memory access size used by a processor. The word …

Sep 8, 2014 · My word processor soft-hyphenated condolences as condolenc-es. Does this look natural to the eyes of native speakers? I, a non-native speaker, think it should be condolen-ces.

Dec 5, 2016 · Indeed, the word handicap as used in sports and similar¹ fits these requirements, but this is usually not applied the intended context nor is it suited as a tag name, as it is also a synonym of …