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The stuff Check Spelling doesn't catch

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The stuff Check Spelling doesn't catch

I've saved my changes as Spell checked text.ai found inside the 08_type folder. Now I hasten to add that just because a document passes a spellchecker, it doesn't mean all is well. Illustrator does not offer a grammar checker and so long as a word appears inside of its dictionary then it gets green lighted even if the word isn't used in the proper context. Notice for example on the second Artboard the third line reads, They were taught, they were tan. Now I suppose it's very possible that they were learning a thing or two as they were getting a tan but that's not what I meant. I meant that they were ripped. They were sinewy, muscular and that kind of taught, is spelled without the g and the h. So I'll press the T key in order to get my Type tool. I'll select gh like so and I'll press the Backspace key in order to get rid of those letters. Now let's say that you want to check the spelling of just that one word. Well, in another program you would double-click on that word and then you…

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