| 99% of the words huh - do you keep a data file on this and run an analysis every week or so? I'm just kidding.
My point is this - Mail flags common words as being mispelled when they are NOT MISPELLED! This is ridiculous. Here is one - just did it:
surreal - Mail suggests sumrreal
How about some common proper nouns:
Detroit and Pittsburgh - Mail has no suggestion, but it has Phoenix and Philadelphia recognized as being spelled correctly???
!!! This kind of thing happens to me all the time, and though I have not saved every single example, in my case it has become a real nuisance. "Wait, I know how to spell that - but Mail says it is wrong and does not have a suggestion... Gee, I'll go double check it in Word or something (I often send letters to people where I don't want to appear illiterate). Gee, Word says it is okay. I was right after all and Mail just caused me to waste 39.4 seconds of my life (I may not have had Word open)."
I do not think that as a user I need to add common words to Mail's dictionary and/or verify spelling in another application, use a 3rd party spell checker... If someone finds this acceptable for Apple Computer in the year 2002, then fine, but it is completely inferior to spell checks in every other popular WP or email app I have used on a Mac or Windows. Although Apple does amazing things, they are harped on by the press and Windows users for the smallest mistakes. Mail's dictionary is an embarrassment and sub standard. I know they can do better and they should.
Tell you what, I'm betting this will be improved in 10.2. If so, I would take that as strong evidence that someone at Apple cornered the slacker who put this together and told them to shape it up.  |