Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Interpreting / Translating , grade: 1,7, University of Cologne (Romanisches Seminar), course: Sprachwissenschaft, language: English, abstract: A computer program, that identifies possible misspellings in a block of text by comparing the text until a database of accepted spellings, is called a spell-check or spell-checking. Spellcheck is also mostly defined as a computer program used to process a document in order to check the spelling. The purposes of spellchecking are very simple: they are very useful to control the accuracy of the spelling of an electronic document and to correct misspellings and errors. The Oxford dictionary (2013) states: "the text show signs of having been spellchecked but not proof-read". This last explanation reveals the difficulties implicated by referring to spellchecking (...)