Heard on The Judges: sE > to BE

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:
>        Outlook's spell-check tried to get me to change "ain't" to
> "isn't" when I first started to send this message.

On that point, see the following post from the Microsoft Office
Natural Language Team blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/naturallanguage/archive/2008/02/15/spellchecking-ain-t-easy.aspx


--Ben Zimmer

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