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Or why not just be straighforward about it: Just because somebody you knew got you a cake job as editor right out of journalism school, and you can't spell yourself worth a plug nickel, doesn't mean you can continually foist your idiocy upon the public. Oh, and by the way, spellcheckers betray you."  That might do it.
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NO excuse for being too f**king lazy to reach across the desk to the dictionary.
If I had my way spell check would be rooted from the memory of every computer in the world; anyone who retained an illicit copy would be subject to immediate summary execution with the body being hanged from the nearest light pole with a sign around the neck reading "I was too lazy to be allowed to live."
Other than that I don't have any feelings on this subject.
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Dear TEd: infinitely superior to a spell checker is my ten buck Webster's New World Dictionaru CD.
I have it minimized, up with a click, type in the first few letters I am sure or, and get a list of
next ten words, where I can recognize the one I was doubtful about. I miss many of my typos,
but I avoid lots of misspellings.
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The spell check is____ deceptively vile.
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SpellCheck is not a grammar.
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Spell checkers do nothing but look words up in a list. If there's no match it figures it's a misspelling. It's good for catching little things like simple typos, but it won't find wrong homonyms. Grammar checkers are also good for simple little mistakes, like Paris in the the spring. There's nothing wrong with spell checkers or grammar checkers; it's the unqualified reliance on them that causes problems.
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Well, the Casey's Snow Day (odd name, that) site wouldn't cooperate, and I had no worthwhile response on the other reverse dictionary I found, but if this'll be any help, what I typed in was: false sense of security.
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