The dangers of Spell-checkers

The following poem illustrates perfectly why you must be cautious when relying on spell-checking tools:

I've run this poem through Spell-Czech, and its perfect as can bee; We hardly knead humans now that machines can reed and here and sea.

Wee don't come with dictionaries planted in our brain. Were knot that good at picky details, we focus on the mane

Idea. We do grand design. They overdue perfection. They ketch us wen we're at are werst, and make each small correction.

Thank you smell cheque, thanks to ewe nothing could be rarer than typos, since at last weave dun aweigh with human error.

Never forget that spell checkers can only detect if words are spelled correctly, not if they are used correctly.

Words that sound the same but are spelled differently (known as homonyms) often cause problems. How often do you see their, there and they're mixed up? Your and you're? To and two too! We'll post a lot of these examples in our Blog over the coming months to help you avoid making mistakes.

Despite what we've shown above, a spell checker is a handy tool and, therefore, should not be completely abandoned. However, writers should not rely on it to catch every error. Spell check should be your first step in editing a document, not the only step. The team at magic-spell.biz can perform a thorough proof-read for you to make sure your document is error-free. Contact us now for a quote.