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  2. Spell checker - Wikipedia

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    The challenge the developers faced was the difficulty in offering useful suggestions for misspelled words. This requires reducing words to a skeletal form and applying pattern-matching algorithms. It might seem logical that where spell-checking dictionaries are concerned, "the bigger, the better," so that correct words are not marked as incorrect.

  3. Commonly misspelled English words - Wikipedia

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    Commonly misspelled English words [1] (UK: misspelt words) are words that are often unintentionally misspelled in general writing. A selected list of common words is presented below, under Documented list of common misspellings .

  4. Spelling - Wikipedia

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    A misspelled word can be a series of letters that represents no correctly spelled word of the same language at all (such as "leik" for "like") or a correct spelling of another word (such as writing "here" when one means "hear", or "no" when one means "know").

  5. How to Correct a Mistake on a Check: Step-by-Step - AOL

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    Simply correct it by following the steps above and your check should go through without issue. Make sure to keep track of all transactions as you would normally in case the bank has any questions.

  6. Cloze test - Wikipedia

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    The definition of success in a given cloze test varies, depending on the broader goals behind the exercise. Assessment may depend on whether the exercise is objective (i.e. students are given a list of words to use in a cloze) or subjective (i.e. students are to fill in a cloze with words that would make a given sentence grammatically correct).

  7. Autocorrection - Wikipedia

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    Typically, the prankster will set the victim's word processing software to replace an extremely common word with a humorous absurdity, or an incorrectly spelled version of the original word. (example: Replacing "groceries" with "geography" to get a sentence such as "I'm going to the store to buy some geography. I mean geography. Geography.

  8. Quiz bowl - Wikipedia

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    Other formats include a written worksheet round, where teams work together for 2–5 minutes to agree on their written answers. [20] [21] [22] Match length is determined by either a game clock or the number of questions in a packet. [3] [17] In most formats, a game ends once the moderator has finished reading every question in a packet, usually ...

  9. Proofreading - Wikipedia

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    "Scanning" is used to check a proof without reading it word for word, has become common with computerization of typesetting and the popularization of word processing. Many publishers have their own proprietary typesetting systems, [5] while their customers use more common commercial programs. Before the original data can be published, it must ...