Michael is spot on. Spell checkers are great, but they are not a substitite for manual editing.
Have seen 'doe snot' fly through a spell checker to the chagrin of the writer who merely wanted to say 'does not'.
One of my favorites is 'pubic utilities'. I would love to speculate on that term but this is a polite cooking forum I believe.
Am sure many of you could come up with many other humerous examples.
I do love the checkers. They let me know that I am a deviant and not a devient. No that I object to the characterization, but I like it to be spelled correctly.
But the computer spellers ain't gonna help you out with 'there' vs 'their' or 'weather' vs 'whether' or 'too' vs 'two' vs 'to'. Heck the list goes on and on.
Love the English language and am very grateful to computers for the help they give me when I right (did this in Word and it did not even sniffle).
Maybe someday a program will be able to proof read a text, correct the spelling and the grandma (I love to do that to the spell checker) and not entirely destroy the creative character of the peace (OK, sorry, but I take a juvenile joy in lauding my humanity over my bit flipping spell checker).
I have a love hate relationship with my computer. It lets me buy things from eBay and order books from Amazon. I can read newspapers from all over the world. And books. The list goes on and on.
But every once in a while it wants to teach me that I am not the master, the boss, but merely a humored slave that is there to toss it bits and bytes.
And it becomes petulent (yes, I know it is spelled petulant but I told the speller bugger to mind its own business) and ignores whatever I tell it to do.
And then, as computer ignorant as I am, I have to unplug all the wires and take it to some smart guy who hires people who have not yet suffered their first zit to take the gizmo to task and fix it.
I give those young folks credit, they do not even snicker in my presents (I am still at war with the checker, sorry).
Sorry, I forgot what this thread was all about anyway.
And I dew tend to carry one (got it twice this time).
Anyway take care and God bless.