See? It even screwed up the subject! Progress is oftentimes a good thing, but spell checker s leave me with mixed emotions. And everybody suffers from them.
I think I would prefer when it left the word uncorrected than replacing a misspelled word with a word that doesn't make sense. As humans we can oftentimes make out a misspelled word. But have you ever tried to make hyde or hair of a word which is obviously out of the blue? Which oftentimes garbles the whole meaning? Or changes it into a non sequitur?
My spell checker changes "ships" into "whole." And it really, really doesn't like screen names.
Sometimes I go back and can't read my own words when using a smart device instead of a full-sized keyboard with fewer typos. Anyone else just shy of firing your spell checker?
I've got an uppity bitch of a spell checker.