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Why is Mac OS Spell check so stupid sometimes?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1840099" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>That one, I think, is reasonable. Spell checkers accept that the first few letter are most likely correct. So for "stuph" it suggested stupid as soon as you had the "stup" in. I just typed it slowly and that is what I saw. It's not so much the spell checking, as it is the function to auto-complete the word as it is being typed. If you end a word, and don't cancel the auto-complete suggestion, it will swap them for you. I think the assumption is that unlike a secretary typing from a document, most of us are actually looking at the screen so we see the suggested auto-complete words and make a sensible choice. If that ain't working for you, System Preferences>Language & Region>Keyboard Preferences>Text and turn off spellcheck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1840099, member: 396914"] That one, I think, is reasonable. Spell checkers accept that the first few letter are most likely correct. So for "stuph" it suggested stupid as soon as you had the "stup" in. I just typed it slowly and that is what I saw. It's not so much the spell checking, as it is the function to auto-complete the word as it is being typed. If you end a word, and don't cancel the auto-complete suggestion, it will swap them for you. I think the assumption is that unlike a secretary typing from a document, most of us are actually looking at the screen so we see the suggested auto-complete words and make a sensible choice. If that ain't working for you, System Preferences>Language & Region>Keyboard Preferences>Text and turn off spellcheck. [/QUOTE]
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