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Prose check: words written two waysEmail. E-mail.

Okay or OK. All right or alright. Cooperate or co-operate. Pick one: Falcontext finds the words written two ways, where your book picked the other.

In Falcontext’s Edit tab, Words written two ways is one part of Spelling consistency, with US or UK spelling and name spelling slips. Each part has its own light, and the worst sets the check’s.

Which words written two ways it catches

The same word, written two ways in one book. Usually across months of drafting, when you’ve forgotten which way you went in chapter two.

Two waysShe sent the e-mail at noon. By evening there was no reply to her email, and the second email went unanswered too.

One wayShe sent the email at noon. By evening there was no reply to her email, and the second email went unanswered too.

The way your book uses most. Not mine, not a dictionary’s.

Guidelines, not rules. OK or okay, it’s your book. This keeps it one way.

Finds

Words written two ways in one book (email and e-mail, okay and OK, all right and alright, cooperate and co-operate), with the less used way flagged.

Traffic light

Fix

Fix all makes every “e-mail” an “email”, or whichever way your book prefers, in browser editors and the writing pad.

Email or e-mail is a style-sheet call. The proofing pass of the self-editing guide keeps the whole book to one of them.

Okay or OK?

Both are used; most style guides now prefer email. What matters in a book is one way throughout, and Falcontext keeps the one your book uses most.

Many editors still prefer all right, but alright is common in fiction. Falcontext only flags it when your book uses both.

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