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Old 04-21-2014, 05:52 PM   #14
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He's so attached to it he couldn't bear to part with it!
So it wasn't a dog that ate it, it was MR bear !

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BR, understood that this experiment is making your feel like Dr. Frankenstein.

It doesn't quite work because it attaches to the US dictionary but does not add to it. Like you, I don't want to thrown out the US dictionary to find out.

I think it needs to be a private dictionary. But this is all too much work for idle curiosity.
@mrmikel - Strangelove more like, Frankenstein never

User (private ?) dictionaries are not implemented as hunspell dictionaries, they're in %APPDATA%calibre\dictionaries\prefs.json

Kovid mentioned adding the ability to add a word-list into the spell checker.

Maybe my original idea of obtaining the differences between en_GB.dic and en_US.dic via a diff can be revived, perhaps it could be the input into the forthcoming 'add word-list' feature.

Or get one of the 'experts' over at libre or apache to build a combined oxt.

Active curiosity has been known to kill cats, but by and large its the way we humans learn - I'm not sure there's such a thing as 'idle curiosity', unless one includes 'vicarious interest' in its definition.

BR

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