Word processing programs on computers are wonderful things, and a great additional to the tools available to writers. It may be one of the grater inventions since the addition of erasers to pencils.
However. The spell chick tool, as with any other tool, is only as good as it's user. Why? Because it does not recognize context. Spell check looks over each work individually, and flag words it does not recognize. The word may indeed be spelled correctly and is used appropriately, but if it is not in the computer's lexicon, or word bank, the machine will flag it somehow.
More importantly, a word may be spelt correctly, and the computer will pass on it, but it may be quit the wrong word.
Want proof? This brief assay was submitted to spell check, and was approved. Nonetheless, there are twelve misused words in this fore brief paragraphs.
Can you find them? The computer didn't.
Moral: Use spell check, and always proofread your own copy. But you should never be the only one to proofread you copy.
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