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Spellcheck is surprisingly influential and can even cause language change. From Gretchen McCulloch's book Because Internet (p. 67):
Anecdotally, I sometimes use a website called LanguageTool to "proofread" important texts, and it's good enough to point out simple mistakes that I can no longer see after working on a text for too long. Every once in a while, though, (and especially in languages other than English) it incorrectly marks things as wrong, but it has this weird kind of authority (it's a spellcheck, after all!) that makes me question myself.
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LanguageTool also has a libreoffice extension
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