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I was actually reasonably impressed with the system; they don't put nearby words near each other, so if you have a typo it becomes pretty obvious to anything but the most braindead delivery system.

So if what you're writing on the envelope is

    Bob Smith
    reporter.smoked.received
    France
it becomes trivial to correct that to reporter.smoker.received, unlike when you write "124 Main Street" instead of "123 Main Street".


To what3words' credit, when I typed reporter.smoker.received into the map tool, it did suggest the correct location in its list of similar locations. https://imgur.com/G2ChrxA.png


> they don't put nearby words near each other

Are we sure? They could do something like a Levenshtein distance correction, but they also might not have.




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