Thread: Aura H2O Looking up hyphenated words in dictionary.
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Old 01-14-2017, 08:29 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by masterz87 View Post
Well it doesn't do lapis-lazuli. Looking up the first word only shows lapin, and the second does lazulite not lazuli. The word does exist but it describes a completely diferent coloring than what it truly is.
As tshering said, "lapis lazuli" is in the English dictionary. If you are looking for "lapis-lazuli", I assume the hyphen is causing the problem. This is a case where hyphenating the compound word is wrong, but the dictionary lookup should have suggested "lapis lazuli" as the nearest match.
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