Why is this wrong?

[Karen]

Why is it that every time I type "journaling", it gets underlined in red like that's misspelled??? How should it be spelled? Or have we invented that word for scrapbooking? These are the deep thoughts I have today.

 

[mollyc]

it's not actually a word. should be. isn't.

oh the woes of scrapbookers, lol.

 

[mollyc]

journal is a noun, there is no verb form...

 

[Karen]

Next your going to tell me that Facebook isn't a verb! LOL. You know like... "I will Facebook you".

 

[Lor]

I have often wondered this very thing myself! That is weird that there is no verb form of it... Well, there is in our world, right gals!

 

[ashleywb]

Funny - I've been spelling it with two Ls (journalling) forever. Makes me feel a little better about spelling it wrong - since it isn't a word anyway.

 

[Brynn Marie]

Oh that drives me bonkers. If I am doing a blog post or credits I will sit and stare at it, double and triple checking to make sure that I have it right lol.

 

[hslater]

I always get the red line so I always think oh maybe its two l's or I have no clue!! Didn't actually know it's not a word!

 

[Lynnette]

Haha! I've thought this so many times! And I don't think it's a term exclusive to scrapbookers, so I seems weird it hasn't been made official yet.

 

[jenevang]

The words "scrapbooking" and "digiscrap" used to come up w/ that red line as well, but alas... we fixed Mr. Webster on those counts, LOL.

 

[Trista]

It's just another one of those words that we had to make for our little community.

 

[Dalis]

Did you try "googling" it?

 

[Roboliver]

Yup it's a word that gets me every time.

 

[Tronesia]

I was wondering if it bothered anyone else. Every time that little line pops up....I stare at the word and sometimes even try a better way to write my sentence so I don't use the word "journaling." Drives me a little crazy..I'll admit. lol!

 

[KarenW]

I always assumed that the American way of spelling it was different to ours (like colour and color), not that it wasn't a word - huh, you learn something new to ignore everyday...

 

[amandac]

we are such ground breakers .. creating our own words

 

[milo82]

hehe that's too funny...I think we should just create our own dictionary!

 

[Karen]

I actually did look it up on dictionary.com yesterday and there isn't an entry for "journaling" but then it suggested a link to an encyclopedia and that actually did have an entry for it and said exactly what it was. C'mon Webster! Get with it!

I am so glad that I'm not the only one who thinks about things like this.

 

[LeeAndra]

I take the red underline off all my programs. I hates it. I know how to spell my own darn words, thank you!

 

[nisafiin]

drives me crazy! It mos def should be a word.