--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Doug Ewell" <dewell@...> wrote:

> Nicholas Bodley <nbodley at speakeasy dot net> wrote:
>
> > What really disappoints me is that homophone checking software

is so

> > rarely used,

> I would have thought existing grammar checkers would be able to

detect

> that "they drove off in there car" was incorrect.

> Plain spell-checkers are useless for homophone detection, of

course.

There are many prgrammes called "word prediction" software or
phonetic spellcheckers marketed to schools - Texthelp, cowriter, Don
Johnson, Kursweil, Aurora, etc. The one we use, Texthelp, floats on
top of Word and has a good homophone checker. The problem is that
you need a license for every workstation and this can get rather
pricey in a school. They are still too expensive for general use -
we have only one license at the moment in our school.

>

Suzanne