When Spellcheck goes bad

I’m quite a sloppy typist at times and find myself increasingly reliant on right-click spell-check-and-correct functionality in both Word and whatever web browser I’m using.  It’s not so much that my spelling is dodgy, but rather that I’m prone to a fair few typos.

Imagine my frustration then, having misspelt the word ‘better’ (I’d missed one of the t’s) that the options for correction were:

Biter

Beater

Beer

Belter

Beret

How can typing the word ‘beter’ not trigger spell-check to recognise the most likely correct word was ‘better’?

Perhaps spell-check has been tweaked in the beta of Office 2010? :-$

I guess I could always just focus on making fewer typos. Hmmm.