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cui bono

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21. Actually, spell check is the problem.

Reply to grantcart (Reply #11)

Wed Oct 16, 2013, 04:24 AM

Oct 2013

Spell check wouldn't find anything wrong with that since "debt" is a correctly spelled word. It also allows for using "their" instead of "there", etc., which I see from time to time in major online sites' articles since as long as it's a word spelled correctly it will go through.

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