Re: Lukashenka (jara: Country names still needed)

Quoting Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>:

> > That sort of people [=copy editors] seems to've lost popularity at
> > an alarming rate since computerized spelling checkers came into
> use[1].
>
> I'm not sure there's a connection there. At least, I haven't noticed a
> corresponding increase in the use of spellcheck programs in
> newspapers.
I very rarely see spelling errors that wouldn't get past Spellcheck* in
newspaper, while grammar errors and the wrong word spelt correctly are pretty
common. Looks suspiciously Spellchecked to me. Obviously, practice may differ
from paper to paper and country to country.

* With the obvious exception of the often erratic spelling of foreign names.

                                                             Andreas