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# Editorial style checker

Checks a draft against a house style you define, covering spelling variants, dates, numbers, the serial comma, heading case, and banned or preferred terms.

Paste a draft to check it against the rule set.

This is a pattern check, not a proofreader. It catches what a rule can catch: spelling pairs from a fixed table, date and number formats, the comma before and, heading case on Markdown headings and short standalone lines, and the words you list. Meaning-dependent pairs like licence and license are flagged for you, never swapped, because the right word depends on sense. Plain-text headings without a # mark are only guessed when they sit alone between blank lines. The GOV.UK preset covers the machine-checkable slice of that guide, not the whole of it.
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