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PuckSR t1_itm4ly1 wrote

It tends to happen more with fantasy, which are the books you've included. Why?
Well, because the list of unrecognized words in a fantasy book is WAY LONGER than the list of unrecognized words in an autobiography. So, you can't really use a quick spell check as easily.

Heck, some books like Mieville's Kraken are written in such an esoteric style, I don't even know if you'd recognize an error.

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ProfessorOzone t1_ito85ve wrote

Thank you. You're the first person in the thread to mention spell checkers. I write and the vast majority of my spelling errors are caught by the computer. Many more are underlined for me to check. So yeah, unusual things can get by, but I don't understand why the OP is seeing so many.

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