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Old 11-27-2004, 02:13 AM  
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This doesn?t mean, however, that you can rely on your spellchecker as your only document check. The English language (especially Americanized English) has multiple layers of nuances and word usages that perhaps no other spoken language has. Our language is also littered with ?sound alikes? (homonyms) such as: you?re, your, and yore; its and it?s; they?re, their, and there; wood and would. If it?s spelled right but used incorrectly, then it is not a certainty that your spellchecker will catch it. Another problem with spellchecker is that you might have a correctly spelled word (let?s say ?boost?) when actually you wanted a totally different word (like ?boast?). And what about horror words like lose and loose? Your spellchecker might blithely sail over these typographical faux pas without so much as a beep.
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