[Corpora-List] MS Spell checker, WAS: American and British English spelling converter

[Mike Maxwell]

Merle Tenney wrote:
> PS and Shameless Microsoft Plug: ... I am amazed at 
> the number of mistakes that the contextual speller has caught in my 
> writing since I started using it.  I recommend the new version of Word 
> and Office for this feature alone.  

A question then: the old Word/Office spell checker had no concept of 
morphology, at least in English.  So if I added the word "infix" to the 
dictionary, I would also have to add "infixes", "infix's", "infixing" etc.

Does the new spell checker know any English morphology?  And if so, does 
the user need to tell it whether a new word is a noun, verb etc.?  Or 
does it figure this out from the context?
-- 
	Mike Maxwell
	maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu