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Rule "Non-standard word"

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Description:	Non-standard word
Message:	The word '\1\2\3' is not standard English. Did you mean \1’\3 (curly apostrophe) or \1'\3 (straight apostrophe)?
Category:	Possible Typo (ID: TYPOS)
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	… and it#s part of the test. Correction suggestion: it’s, it's My book;s on the shelf. Correction suggestion: book’s, book's Read your text(s very carefully. Correction suggestion: text’s, text's The 'apostrophe' in "what´s" has the ANSI value 180. It is an acute accent: www.alanwood.net/demos/ansi.html. Correction suggestion: what’s, what's He#ll take care of it once back from vacation. Correction suggestion: He’ll, He'll
Correct sentences for comparison:	… and it's part of the test. Read the document(s) carefully. The U.S. Government will... "T" stands for Tom and "M" stands for Mary. The acronym A.B.S. can mean... Southernmost Point — Cape Agulhas, South Africa (34°51'15"S) ... when he wrote, "[I]s this correct?" ... against the dishes as she "… think[s] it an odd jumble of trash." ... at approximately 10 cm/s on average. ... distinguishes between dotted and dotless "I"s. ... cardinal number system, e.g., ḫamsat ʾayyām →ḫam(a)s tiyyām, where certain words have a special plural... ... including the first non-U.S. team (the Montreal Expos) ... with an operation compare(S,T) that checks whether the stacks S and T... ...or complete connection loss of the Bluetooth device/s connected to a computer. If the result #s are incorrect, do the test again. a.s.a.p It's me v.s. them. See en.m.wikipedia.org First come, first serve(d) It was defined under section 3.d of the 1989 agreement. A tab character is "\t"
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ID:	NON_STANDARD_WORD [1]
Version:	6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-26 22:33:08 +0200)