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3QVKwyNT9hR849t7 · 07-13-2018, 03:30 AM

@tomsem > - select Search Everywhere for ‘[word]’

This would have been a usable (albeit horribly clumsy) workaround, but it seems to only search the english dictionary, not my sideloaded Norwegian Bokmål one (which works great for the book itself).

https://media.giphy.com/media/20vJhJ...icxS/giphy.gif (sorry for the tilt)

Calibre's metadata said the book said is in "Norwegian" (3 choices, norwegian, norwegian bokmål, norwegian nynorsk), and my dictionary should hopefully be marked as nb-NO (norwegian bokmål). So am guessing the problem is not there (as it definitely shouldn't open an english dictionary if it were)

> I’m not sure what one should expect if you look up a word and it is not in any dictionary.

In my case, either bug in my scripts, bug in the parser am using or the word not being defined on Wiktionary ^^

@Lady Stardust >The problem might be that Oxford dictionary cannot find compound "watermonster" since it doesn't exist.

Indeed, the compound word may not even exist in an actual dictionary, (and may thus be a mistake on author's part), but I'd still like to be look up the two words to see what they meant.

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3QVKwyNT9hR849t7 Connoisseur Posts: 56 Karma: 4000 Join Date: Mar 2018 Device: PW4 32GB (G000 T607) 5.12.3	@tomsem > - select Search Everywhere for ‘[word]’ This would have been a usable (albeit horribly clumsy) workaround, but it seems to only search the english dictionary, not my sideloaded Norwegian Bokmål one (which works great for the book itself). https://media.giphy.com/media/20vJhJ...icxS/giphy.gif (sorry for the tilt) Calibre's metadata said the book said is in "Norwegian" (3 choices, norwegian, norwegian bokmål, norwegian nynorsk), and my dictionary should hopefully be marked as nb-NO (norwegian bokmål). So am guessing the problem is not there (as it definitely shouldn't open an english dictionary if it were) > I’m not sure what one should expect if you look up a word and it is not in any dictionary. In my case, either bug in my scripts, bug in the parser am using or the word not being defined on Wiktionary ^^ @Lady Stardust >The problem might be that Oxford dictionary cannot find compound "watermonster" since it doesn't exist. Indeed, the compound word may not even exist in an actual dictionary, (and may thus be a mistake on author's part), but I'd still like to be look up the two words to see what they meant. Last edited by 3QVKwyNT9hR849t7; 07-13-2018 at 04:00 AM.