On 1/31/06, Dave Fawthrop <hyphen@hyphenologist.co.uk> wrote:
I have just finished another of Hartley's Dialect Books, Hartley's Yorkshire ditties Second Series and put it through Gutcheck. It is a tiny book, 4 1/2 ins * 6 1/2 Ins and only 143 pages 3062 lines of PG Etext. Gutcheck throws 526 errors. All of which are wrong, except about 10 are trying to correct errors in the original text. It only found about a dozen real errors.
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Indeed :) Catching a dozen real errors is a definite win! Plus, though it doesn't sound like it happened for you, I find that checking the false errors gives me a different view of the text, and thus occasionally spot other things in the text, (usually sneaky scannos of the lie/he, ago/age type.) Thanks again for Gutcheck, Jim! Cori