WAITS: The first interactive spell checker

Today we'll look at SPELL , probably the world's first interactive spell checker, which debuted on WAITS in 1971. The WAITS spell checker on the III. Source: Rupert Lane. License: CC0 . Origins The origins of SPELL are in work Les Earnest did at MIT to recognise cursive handwriting in the late 1960s/early 1960s. He put together a dictionary of around 10,000 English words (from ABANDON to…