For those of you who’ve forgotten this nifty trick*: say you’re reading a website. Say it’s this blog. And say you’re the author and you’re wondering whether you spelled “unbeknownst” correctly. Put your cursor over the word in question, and hold down command-control-D. A dictionary window will pop up with the word and its definition.

*This is a Tiger feature. If you’re still running Panther, it’s not gonna work. And by the way, “gonna” is in the Oxford dictionary as “a contraction of ‘going to’. “

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