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It feels like spell checking was better in the 2000s than it is today. It probably wasn't, but it didn't feel so annoying because it was not that prevalent.

With the spellcheckers Google and Apple are using, it's rare that I can write a full paragraph of Finnish without them flagging something incorrectly. Whatever methods they are using, they seem to be incapable of handling cases, conjugation, and compound words. Which is ironic, since early Finnish spellcheckers were surprisingly good. There was a lot of research on those topics in Finland in the 80s and 90s, and early spellcheckers took advantage of that.



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