A note about typing/spelling - Cycling full length of Portugal - CycleBlaze

A note about typing/spelling

I struggle with typing due to fine motor skills with my fingers,      so I generally use the dictation facilities on both my laptop and my mobile phone. I like to have properly typed and grammatically correct and spelt updates, but unfortunately, sometimes the system doesn't work as well as it should. For example, when I tried just there to say grammatically, it came up with chromatically. I plan to go in and correct it all when I get home after the journey, but if you see things that sound a bit vague try reading them phonetically and see what happens. Sorry for any mistakes.

Just to confuse things further, my laptop has a problem with the on-board dictionary for British English, so I've had to switch to Canadian English, which is a mix between American and British. So if you see anything that looks wrong, like verbs with ending in -ize, apologies. I plan to use my phone for updates whilst on the trip so this should be less of an issue. However, the keyboard on the screen of the phone is more fiddly, so more prospect for errors, and finger based problems.

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Steve Miller/GrampiesHow lovely, you will be using Canadian English. This is, of course, quite normal for us Canucks. We did the route you are proposing a few years back and quite enjoyed it. Mostly flatter in the North and hillier in the South.
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Bob KoreisNone of us here can cast stones when it comes to errors in journals so no pre apologies are necessary.

BTW, does Canadian English add the occasional eh?
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Steve Miller/GrampiesTo Bob KoreisI think there are some vocabulary differences with Canadian English using a mix of American and British words, and some spelling differences with Canadian spelling notably using the extra u in words like honour, favour, and so on. There are others of course. Eh, however, is exclusively used in spoken language.
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