Thank you. This is the perfect way to word this. My blood was kinda boiling reading the article because I've implemented a spell checker and it's sure as hell n

Thank you. This is the perfect way to word this. My blood was kinda boiling reading the article because I've implemented a spell checker and it's sure as hell not trivial. However, my experience is exactly what you described. I got it to identify / highlight misspelled words in an afternoon, but then I came to suggesting the correction and things got hairy quick. Also, my spell checker wasn't even "smart" (aware of semantics, context, homophones, etc).