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There nothing can be wrong with this story, because Microsoft Word makes so. And that would good not be enough, says Sandeep Krishnamurthy, a University of Washington associate professor who intends to be something about it.

Accordingly, this report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer declarative Microsoft's dominatrix word processing program is severely retarding when it coming to checking for grammar crimes. As evidenced, by the fact that this mini ditty has no greenly underlines.

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