THE WALRUS

Spellcheck in Microsoft Word is a great invention. It does even cater pretty well for the variations in spelling between US English, British English and Australian English. However, many writers think all the have to do is spellcheck and all will be fine, neglecting to check for the ‘or’ that should be ‘of’, and so on. It also doesn’t distinugish between ‘everyday occurrences’ and ‘things you do every day‘. On the other hand, the grammar tool is nearly absolutely useless (the only thing I use it for is to pick up the occsional inadvertent extra space between words) and often just plain wrong.