Why Google docs is gaslighting everyone about spelling: an investigation | The Outline
Unless you're a nerd, or the victim of some embarrassing autocorrect, you hopefully don't think about spell checkers all too often. They're one of those magical internet tools that are designed to work seamlessly in the shadows. So long as they don't screw up, they shouldn't occupy your mind much at all.
But of course, like all things, spell checkers screw up pretty regularly, and thanks to their general ubiquity nowadays, these errors are usually quickly and widely noticed. When it comes to issues like the iPhone's strange late-2017 aversion to the letter 'i', it's pretty easy to point the blame at a freak glitch or bug, but not all problems are as simple. Take, for example, the curious case of Google Docs:
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