Oh Microsoft, why do you vex me so?
My wonderful proof readers have challenged my quirky use of the word “aint” in the text of my new short story. Because it is slang, and I only use it in dialogue, I made a choice to spell it without the apostrophe, aint. I thought it might make the text interesting. However, their eagle eyes all called attention to it. One rule of writing is that the spelling and word usage should never be a distraction so I opted to follow their advice and change it to the more accepted “ain’t” with the apostrophe.
When I did this, I used the FIND/REPLACE option in the editing of Microsoft Word. That should make it very easy, right?
Not really.
The stupid software turned maintenance into main’tenance, which is a word that appeared in the text more than the word “ain’t.” Therefore, by trying to take the easy road, I only made more work for myself.
Ugh. Stupid Microsoft.
4 responses to “IT “AIN’T” WORKING”
Eek! That must be annoying. Hmm try putting the word ain’t in quotation marks like: ‘ain’t’. Hopefully something like that should work.
that should work. i also remembered a trick i’ve used before where i skip a space before and after the word i’m replacing to keep that sad event from happening. too bad for me i remembered it afterward!
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