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OP James May, who hosts a program about automobiles on BBC2, wrote a guest essay for The Telegraph today in which he objected to the spell-checking and grammar-checking functions of Microsoft WORD:
"Essentially, there's a bloke somewhere in the Microsoft empire whose pedantry and smugness has been codified in digital form so that he has become as omnipotent as God, only rather less creative. He even tries to correct the spelling of some words, when he can't possibly know how to spell them because I've only just made them up. It drives me mental."
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