june gloom on 7/9/2010 at 08:26
List of real words that it does not recognize:
dashed
proctologist
Buckinghamshire
uncapitalized (suggests overcapitalize as a replacement...)
the Zealand in New Zealand
brassed
bonafide
vaginas (!?)
I need a better dictionary. Suggestions?
SubJeff on 7/9/2010 at 14:21
You can add words to the dictionary so what's the problem?
New Horizon on 7/9/2010 at 15:38
Yes, if you know for sure that it's correct, just right click and choose Add to Dictionary.
Telliamed on 7/9/2010 at 22:12
Didn't an early version of the spellchecker not recognize the word "internet" I recall... might have been a different program. Anyway, Firefox uses (
http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/) Hunspell, which is also used by Chrome, Opera, and OpenOffice. You can download the latest dictionary and drop it into the $(Program Files)/Firefox/dictionaries folder. OO at least does better... it recognizes "dashed" but not any of the others. Oh well. Open source so go ahead and file a bug report. It looks like most of the dictionary work is being done by the (
http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/) OpenOffice folks so bug them about it. Then bug the FF folks to provide the most up-to-date dictionary, and maybe make updating the dictionaries easier, like with an auto-downloader or something.
Of course, if developers could have just settled on using a single OS-wide (
http://aspell.net/) aspell dictionary for everything, but nooo you've just gotta go around and reinvent everything just because it's lacking one tiny feature and you're afraid of the big bad GPL to bother contributing the change. Well okay, now that everyone likes Hunspell better we can just migrate to it from aspell like we did from pspell before... nuh-uh, we'll just embed redundant copies of the same shit in every app you lazy as..... *ahem*
jtr7 on 8/9/2010 at 00:40
I've wondered if the lack of should've/could've/would've in the FF dictionary was somewhat responsible for the rise of should of/could of/would of.
june gloom on 8/9/2010 at 00:40
I have been adding words to the dictionary. I'm just getting tired of seeing real words get marked as spelling errors, and want a bigger dictionary that isn't functionally retarded. It'd save me some work, anyway.
Nameless Voice on 14/9/2010 at 19:31
Quote Posted by Telliamed
Didn't an early version of the spellchecker not recognize the word "internet" I recall... might have been a different program.
Most spellcheckers seem to insist on it being written with an uppercase I for some reason.
ZylonBane on 14/9/2010 at 22:21
Well, it is a proper name. There's only one Internet.
SubJeff on 16/9/2010 at 19:29
Funny thing is public school here means private non-state school that you pay for and which naturally are considered higher quality educational establishments.
