Nicholas Bodley <nbodley at speakeasy dot net> wrote:

> What really disappoints me is that homophone checking software is so
> rarely used, especially when <flamelet> a significant portion of our
> writing population is pathetically ignorant about homophones.
> </flamelet>

I would have thought existing grammar checkers would be able to detect
that "they drove off in there car" was incorrect.

I hate the grammar checker in Word, since it is constantly telling me
that I have run-on sentences when I don't, and complaining about the
length of my sentences based on raw word count. It's doing its job
correctly, but I hate it anyway.

Plain spell-checkers are useless for homophone detection, of course.

-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/