Thanks, Ramsus.
I just copied and pasted the terms from the encyclopedia and used Excel to make the lower case versions.
The computer I use for posting doesn't have the auto-spell check as far as I know, as we are still using IE6.
To me, that's not being enabled by technology, so much as simply being dependant on it.
I actually don't use any kind of spell check, and I always disable the auto-spell checking in word processors (along with any auto-correction and auto-formatting tools), since I find it all to be more of a distraction than anything.
Unless you actually put some thought into how you're spelling things, you'll never pick up when you're not spelling things correctly without something or someone else pointing it out for you all the time. In my opinion, that does more to hurt your actual spelling ability than anything else.
That's because when you have to stop and say, "wait, that doesn't look right... let me look that up real quick," and then expend some actual mental energy searching for the word, you're much more likely to remember the correct spelling and not repeat the mistake. Or worse yet, when you embarrass yourself because you totally messed up the spelling, you're even more likely to remember the correct spelling.
You're also much more likely to know what the word means as well, which is even more important than spelling it.
Of course, some people are just dyslexic, and in that case, you're just stuck being dependant on technology or a friend with good spelling ability to help you out all of the time.
But for the majority of us who aren't, we can actually come to save ourselves a lot of time through careful learning and conditioning. Most of the editing I do with my first drafts is simply deleting repetitive stuff, and after that I can focus on editing for style, because that's usually all I need to do.
