This thought occured to me as I was reading Forge Of Heaven by C J Cherryh. I’m finding an annoying spelling error every dozen pages or so. And they all share a similar pattern: the substitution of one correctly-spelled, but wrong, word for the correct one.

So far I’ve run into “what” (should have been “that”) and similar innocuous substitutions, nothing earthshaking, but it’s shame to keep getting jarred out of the story because the publisher wanted to save money by running it through a spell-checker rather than using a real live human.

Moral: There are some tasks that technology still can’t handle properly.