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NancyLebovitz comments on Open thread, August 26 - September 1, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 27 August 2013 07:27:26PM 2 points [-]

You can't trust spell-checkers-- their vocabulary lists tend to be incomplete.

I recommend at least going to a search engine if you have a strong intuition about how a word should be spelled.

It's not that intuition is entirely reliable, either. It was a hard fight to convince me that it should be irrelevant rather than irrelevent. Now they both look wrong.