Comments on: WordPress Acquires Grammer Gramer Grammar Checking Software

By: Busted Keys

Busted Keys — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:54:39 +0000

your example of “it’s” versus the “its” After The Deadline grammar check is useful because neither spelling is incorrect. and you’re right that a blogger, like myself, would find this useful since we don’t need to spend extra minutes and hours re-reading our own work.
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By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:39:36 +0000

Thanks Judith!

@Jon – I think Automattic is a play on the founder’s name – Matt Mullenweg.

By: Jon Dale

Jon Dale — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:55:47 +0000

RE: (Note: It’s not perfect. Notice it missed “ads” when it should be “adds.”)

“Ads” is an ok common abbreviation for “advertisements”, but “automattic” is wrong in any language.

By: Judith

Judith — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:01:09 +0000

I’ll take whatever help I can get! Even though I am constantly working on my writing skills, I have been told I have a problem with “possessives.” Between that and whatever dangling participles are — Uncle!

Andy, you are one of the few e-mails I look forward to seeing in my inbox! Keep up the great work!
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By: Yael K. Miller

Yael K. Miller — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:55:29 +0000

@Robert I agree with you that I’m happy it’s a plugin as I’m not a fan of grammar checkers.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:17:13 +0000

Yael, I think that's a firefox thing rather than a WP Thing, but it does work fairly well. I like this new grammar checker idea, though I think it might be cumbersome to many users, so I'm actually happy that it's a plugin rather than a built-in. .-= Robert´s last blog ..What is the Average Reading Speed of Americans? =-.

By: Yael K. Miller

Yael K. Miller — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:05:48 +0000

Andy –

There’s always been spell checker in WordPress — no plugin required. A red underline appears under a misspelled word and, at least in Firefox, all you have to do is right click on the word and correctly spelled options appear.

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:40:06 +0000

@Raphael – thanks for stopping by with additional info. I suspect there’s a fine line that you have to walk between too much and too little correction. I’m looking forward to using it!

By: Raphael Mudge

Raphael Mudge — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:10:18 +0000

Hi Andy,
AtD takes two approaches to misused word detection. It uses rules for very commonly confused words (it’s/its fall into this) and a statistical approach for 1500 other words that are sometimes mistaken for eachother. The rule-based approach is highly tuned and accurate where the statistical approach provides broad coverage. The statistical approach is tuned to only offer a suggestion if it has a 25x certainty that a suggested word is better than the current one. I do this to help avoid highlighting correctly used words.

Thanks for the writeup.

– Raphael
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