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In article >,
says...
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> "Andy" <q> wrote in message ...
> > Boron Elgar said...
>
> >> Try reading newspapers or online news sources or almost anything else
> >> that doesn't go through the more rigorous proofreading that a human
> >> provides, but relies instead on speelchuckers.
> >>
> >> Boron
> >
> > Sure but a spell checker worth it's salt should've flagged "manesium." The
> > fact that a typo slipped by says that somebody dropped the ball BIG TIME
> > in
> > the art department. Imagine if that happened to US currency? IN GOD WE
> > TRUSST?
> >
> > Andy
>
> A retired editor never retires; she lives on to comment:
>
> A spell checker "worth it's salt" would have flagged "it's" used instead of
> the correct "its". So who dropped the ball BIG TIME?
>
> Felice
> (IN DOG WE TRUST)
>
>
>

The problem with spell check is that you can use the wrong word but
correctly spell it and the software will never warn you about it.