The system-wide spell check in OS X has been a welcome addition to the Mac platform, and many developers have implemented it in their programs. However, in some instances this feature may suddenly ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- How might you drag a good writer's work down to the level of a lesser scribe? Try the spell-check button. A study at the University of Pittsburgh indicates spell-check software may ...

Sometimes when composing documents in multiple languages, it may be useful to check the spelling in those various languages. Here are some options for how to manage multiple languages in OS X. Topher ...

Like many, I was not pleased to read that Oregon students in 7th-grade and high school will be allowed to use spell check on their computers for more than single-word checks on state exams. At the end ...

For most of us who didn’t do well in high school English class, spell checkers are a real game-changer. Sure, you can still swap a “to” and a “too,” but a spell checker will catch a lot of typos. But ...

Four weeks after the launch of Google’s Chrome 26browser into beta, the final version debuted on Tuesday. The most notable enhancements in Chrome 26 include a new spell-checking engine, as we saw when ...

The death rate of words has apparently increased recently while new entries into languages are becoming less common, both perhaps because of digital spell-checking, according to a Google-aided ...

Anthony Deighton is chief product officer at Tamr. He has over 20 years of experience building and scaling enterprise software companies. Confession time: I’m a terrible speller. In fact, if I sent ...