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Check for sexist spelling corrections.

Project Member Reported by jyasskin@chromium.org, May 3 2018

Issue description

Chrome's spell checker (with "Ask Google for Suggestions" checked) suggests replacing "jazzwomen" with "jazz-women", "jazzmen", or "jazz women". Both "jazzmen" and "jazzwomen" should be either accepted or rejected.

To some extent, this is just a data problem, but our systems need to look out for sexist (and racist, etc.) data out in the world and avoid learning from it.
 
This was on Mac Chrome 68.0.3409.2. Safari offers the same auto-correct list, so that might be a MacOS problem. However, on Windows Chrome 65.0.3325.181 with the same option checked, it only suggests "jazzmen" as a correction, so it's also our problem.

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