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Spelling and grammar

Insights into the magic of Standard English and schooling

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A student hovers over red-underlined text, clicks a button, and watches her errant writing replaced. The red line disappears. She continues typing, pausing to address the flagged words and phrases. When she stops typing, what appears before her is spotless – its errors coded out of existence by a modern grammar checker. Her teacher may never become aware of the artificial intelligence that has augmented her writing production. She submits her paper.

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English Today , Volume 38 , Issue 1 , March 2022 , pp. 52 - 62
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