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Please note for Hunspell dictionaries that properly use affix detection and compression, you should not add unflagged words to the dictionary. The proper way to handle that for en is to expand the dictionary (by reversing affix flag usage) to recreate a plain word list, add you new words and be sure to add all versions of the word with prefixes and suffixes, and then re-crunch the wordlist.
This process seems to have been lost over the years as people do not understand the affix rules and affix compression.
For example the en US dict that Sigil used to use had no affix compression used at all. Being the original author of MySpell (predecessor of hunspell) and one-time head of OpenOffice's lingucomponent project, it is sad to see information on how to properly create dictionaries that are not giant wordlists has been lost.
In addition, the role of a spellcheck dictionary is not the same as an online dictionary or real dictionary. Spellcheck dictionaries should be designed to focus on the "working set" of a language and NOT try to be all encompassing as this actually leads to fewer incorrect words being detected as common mistakes turn out to be real but not typically used words, or slang, or abbreviations, or whatnot.
You are better off creating additional user dictionaries that catch common words you use that are not covered by the spellcheck dictionaries, to expand your personal "working set" of the language.
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