[Air-l] Microsoft Word Spelling and Grammar Check- correct version.

[Andrew Wenn]

Hi Sandeep,

I used Grammarian, with the grammar set at "common", it picked up 
numerous grammar errors. Some correct but more often than not it made 
bad suggestions about what was wrong. for example for the first 
sentence it suggested "Marketing is bad for brand" When I added 
McDonalds to the dictionary it accepted the second sentence. It then 
decided that McDonald's was incorrect which of course it might be as 
McDonald can be a surname. But I personally liked the change it 
suggested to "Internets make good brand" it detected the missing 
article and suggested "Internets make the (alt a) good brand"

It just serves to illustrate how complex the English language is. I 
used the Australia English dictionary that comes with Grammarian

Andrew.


On 22/03/2005, at 3:01 AM, Sandeep Krishnamurthy wrote:

> The e-mail I sent out earlier seems to have acquired some additional 
> formatting on the way (thanks to my mailer).  I have, therefore, 
> posted it on my blog.   Please see-
>
> http://sandeepworld.blogspot.com/2005/03/microsoft-word-spel
> ling-and-grammar.html
>
> or
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4payv
>
> Sorry! Let me know what you think.
>
>
> Sandeep Krishnamurthy
> http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep
> http://sandeepworld.blogspot.com
>
>
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