I can't resist sharing this example of the latest idiocy displayed by my
MS Word grammar checker. I began a text with the following:

"Which came first, the letter or the sound?"

Word's correction?

, Which

Yes, a comma followed by a capital letter.

Its other suggestion was to replace "which" with "that".

I'm starting a collection of idiotic corrections like this. I get about
three per page.

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Johanna Rubba, Associate Professor, Linguistics
English Department, Cal Poly State University
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Tel. 805-756-2184 ~ Dept. phone 805-756-2596
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