Zing Spell Check Tool: Vision

January 2008

The Zing Spell Check Tool (SCT) has been in use for nearly 12 months now. It’s been installed on all ZCoB desktop computers – remotely installed on Windows computers using group policy in Active Directory – and has received lots of positive feedback. Writing and emailing in the MS Office suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, Entourage, etc.) is easier and more enjoyable because of all the ZCoB jargon and foodie terms included: no longer is Weinzweig or Binny’s unrecognized and marred by squiggly red underlines; prosciutto is no longer embarrassingly auto-corrected with prostitute.

When the Zing SCT was first rolled out it had more than 6,000 terms. Now, thanks to the SCT submission form on the Zingtranet, the total number of terms is over 8,000. When ZCoBbers find a word that they want included in the SCT, they log on to the Zingtranet, click the Spell Check Word Submission link, and enter a word or phrase. It’s then sent to me, spelling verified, and crosschecked against the existing word list. Updates for Zing SCT are issued quarterly.