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The other issue is that people think the spellcheck function should be like the OED in completeness. That is simply not true. The more obscure words in the dictionary there are will just help to hide many of the most common mistakes made. I read that Shakespeare used only about 15,000 different words in all of his plays, where most people use between 3,000 to 6,000 words. These huge long word lists are really a mistake. I think the program that uses affixes to compress the wordlist must have been lost in the transition from MySpell to Hunspell somehow, as no one seems to understand what the .aff file is for and how to use it. Sad really.
KevinH
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