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From: dpz@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (David P. Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: MS Word vs. WordPerfect
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Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 15:19:57 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  8 15:19:57 1986
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I read with interest ted@imsvax.UUCP (Ted Holden)'s comments about
MSWord's and WordPerfect's spelling checkers and decided to try out
Turbo Lightning on his sample text:

>    An elefent stteppped on a bigge blaq bugge and the biiig blakke buig
>    blead thickke blaekk bloood

After running it through (and leaving the words that it couldn't
handle as is), Lightning came back with this:

  An elephant stepped on a bigge black bugge and the biiig blakke bug
  bled thickke blaekk blood

Not too surprising, if you consider how Lightning goes about its
checking: based on a list of commonly misspelled words, then based on
phonetics, then on length.  I had to scroll through the list of
possible corrections Lightning gave me to find one or two of the
words, while others were right at the top of the list (one of which
was, surprisingly, "stepped" for "stteppped").

Of course, I couldn't resist running it through Lightning's thesaurus:

  An elephant stepped on a bigge swarthy bugge and the biiig blakke germ
  bled thickke blaekk blood

Oh, well - so much for that (probably would've done better with the
thesaurus had more of the words been spelled correctly).


	David