A Grammar Checker Caught 19 of Our 29 Planted Mistakes
We ran a 155-word notice with 29 planted errors through LanguageTool and two style checkers. LanguageTool flagged 19 and missed both grammar…
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Usage and Spelling
Guides on which word or spelling is right, and how to check your own text: British and American spelling, the mistakes a spellchecker and a grammar checker pass, “log in” or “login”, readability scores, and words a reader can take two ways. Most of them include a checker you can paste your text into.
Find Mixed British and American Spelling in Your Text
Paste your text and see whether its spelling is British, American or mixed, and which words break the pattern. Below the checker,…
Words Your Reader Can Take Two Ways
Sanction, oversight, table, biweekly, next Friday, should: words and phrases that a reader of a work email or report can take in…
How to Check Whether a Word Is a Real Word
A word being in the dictionary does not mean you can use it in a work email. The label beside the definition…
How to Catch the Mistakes Spellcheck Misses
We planted 29 errors in a short notice and ran it through Hunspell and Aspell. They flagged 7 and 8. Here are…
What a Readability Score Cannot See
We scored five short work notices with two programs. A clear notice and the same notice shuffled into nonsense got identical scores,…
Words That Sound Smarter Until You Put Them in a Sentence
Fulsome, penultimate, nonplussed, myself, whomever: words people pick at work to sound more formal, shown in sentences where they go wrong, with…
Log In or Login? The Same Rule Settles Set Up, Back Up and Sign Up
The verb is two words and the noun is one, for log in, set up, back up and ten more pairs like…
