Why Did WordPress Remove The Spelling Help?

I have to ask…why did WordPress remove the spelling assistance? I’ve been posting on here for a few years now and it has at least been mildly useful. It kind of sucks that it’s gone now.

Maybe this is just gone for me for some reason. On the post editing window, it still will tell me when it thinks a word is misspelled. This isn’t the handiest thing in the world, as I apparently know many words that WordPress does not. Still, for words that it did successfully identify that I misspelled, it was handy to be able to click and select the correct spelling instead of having to retype the whole word correctly.

It doesn’t do this anymore.

Instead, when I click a word that has been flagged as misspelled, WordPress offer to let me cut, copy, paste, configure spelling and grammar or font or paragraph direction. There are no spelling suggestions at all. I have to correct myself, or even look up the word if I can’t remember how to correctly spell it.

Presuming it isn’t spelled correctly already and isn’t just a word that WordPress doesn’t know. If I’m unsure in that case, I have to copy and paste the word into Google in order to merely verify that it is already correct. I could have at least partially figured that out before when WordPress insisted a word was misspelled but could not offer a correct spelling.

I just don’t know why this was removed, or why if it’s just me that it suddenly doesn’t work in my browser. It isn’t a big thing, but it is kind of annoying.

Funny side note, WordPress is one word that WordPress identifies as misspelled.