Franklin sa-50 Bedienungsanleitung

Thank you for purchasing the Spelling Tutor (SA-50). 

Battery Installation: Open the battery compartment lo-
cated on the underside of the unit by sliding the cover 
off toward you. Be sure to position 4 AAA batteries (not 
included) according to the polarity markings (+-) inside 
the compartment. We recommend the use of alkaline or 
high quality rechargeable batteries.

Turn the SA-50 on by pressing: 

. You see: 

Important: If the screen is too bright or too dark, use 

 to brighten the contrast or 

 to darken the con-

trast.

The Spelling Tutor has an automatic shutoff feature 
which extends battery life. See the games portion of this 
manual if you want to set a longer shutoff time.

NOTE: Pressing 

 at the “Ready” screen brings up 

general operating instructions. Pressing the info key at 
other screens brings up information relevant to the 
screen you are viewing.

The SA-50 contains a 50,000 word spell-checking dic-
tionary which is edited and maintained by Merriam-
Webster. Type in a word the way you think it is spelled 
and the SA-50’s Spellblaster II correction technology 
brings you a list of corrections.

Let’s see what happens when you enter a correctly 

spelled word. Type 

tough

.

 Press 

. The message “Correct!” flashes to let 

you know that you have spelled the word correctly.

If you make a mistake typing in a letter, use 

 to erase 

the last one you typed.

Pressing 

 will add a space.

Now let’s try a misspelling. Press 

 to return to the 

“Ready” screen.

Type 

tuf

 and then press 

. 

The message “Working...” flashes and then the mes-
sage “List size 10” appears for a short period of time. 
The screen below then appears:

The down arrow indicates the availability of more words. 
Use 

 to see them.

Your SA-50 has an amazing way to look up words. It’s 
called Matchmaker. There are two Matchmaker sym-
bols: a “?” (Letter Detective) and an “

✽

” (Fragment Find-

er).

Let’s try using them now! Make sure that you are at the 
“Ready” screen. Type 

e??y

. Your screen should look 

like the one below:

Now press 

. The screen below appears:

Use 

 and 

 to see every four letter word from the 

SA-50 which begins with “e” and ends in “y”. This is a 
great feature if you like playing crossword puzzles.

The next Matchmaker symbol we’ll try is called the 
Fragment Finder. Use 

 to type it in. The “

✽

” sym-

bol represents zero or more characters.

Let’s try it now. Press 

. Type the letters 

oa

. 

Press 

. Your screen should look like the one be-

low:

Press 

. You now see:

Let’s try a different way of using the Fragment Finder. 
Let’s suppose that you want to find all of the words in the 
SA-50 that end in “ment”.

Press 

. Type in 

ment

 and then press 

. 

You now see:

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