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Old 01-28-2011, 10:36 AM   #137
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Originally Posted by bizzybody View Post
Since comers is such a rarely used and archaic word in English, almost always with the word all before it, any time English OCR software thinks it sees "comers" it should be flagged, tagged and bagged as corners unless all is right before it. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/All+comers
I don't know about you, but I'd really rather not have the word "newcomers" (a relatively common word) converted into "newcorners".
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