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Originally Posted by kazbates
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Generally, when I finish typing a post and before I submit it, I run spell checker. If I am quoting someone from the UK, the spell checker may find a word that it thinks is spelled incorrectly but is, in actuality, spelled correctly for the original poster. My spell checker is set for US English.
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Which also means you rely on the quality of the spell-checker's dictionary. I guess it's not so bad nowadays, but a reason I am wary of spell-checkers, is that they have had a detrimental effect on written Danish. Ten years ago, the standard dictionaries couldn't usually handle compund words, which are common, and the result is that many people today often split up words that shouldn't be. The dictionaries have gotten better, but some damage has been done. I still use a spell checker because I tend to make a lot of typos, but I don't rely on it 100 percent for the spelling.