Interesting language stuff

[Jonathon]

That is interesting, though I was hoping they'd go into more detail about specific changes. I wonder if anyone's studied it in depth.

[rivka]

Could be a good PhD thesis for someone.

[Jonathon]

Definitely.

[rivka]

I did a ProQuest search and was unable to find anything. I found a few that were about using Word (sometimes with another option as a comparison) as a method to teach various groups of students writing skills and the like.

So either it hasn't been done, or my ProQuest search skills are lacking. Probably both.

[Jonathon]

I actually wrote a chapter last year on editors and dictionaries for an edited volume that's coming out next year, and I briefly discussed spellcheckers. I didn't do a super-deep dive into the literature, but I found surprisingly little on that specific topic, so my guess is that nobody's really done any research in that area.