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Old 01-19-2022, 04:47 AM   #13
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It appears that the word base in applications such as Pages and Word are far more comprehensive than the Hunspell one.

Pasting your list in #10 into my copy of Word 2010 only Aaren, Aarika and Abagael are shown as misspelled. This is also borne out by the fact that when I opened my list of words as flagged by Hunspell as being misspelled in Word probably less than 20% were showing as being so.

Personally I don't think it's a good idea to include people's names in a dictionary. These days it seems people seem to want to change the spelling of their 'common' name just stand out from the crowd - and some are just completely bizarre.

As for 'zorch' I would have put that into my slang dictionary. Its use is probably quite common in certain groups but not a word in wide usage (at least here in my part of the UK).

Just going back a few posts to my example of how removing the 's' affects the spellchecker, and we debated the use of swine vs swines as a plural. I was thinking further about this and it is all dependant on how you use the word swine.

1. Swine as a pig: In that situation I would use swine as the plural - 'a herd of swine'.

2. Swine as in a person behaving badly: In that situation I would use swines - 'you bunch of swines!'

Anyway I really had not intend it to become this complicated. I thought that it would have just been a simple matter of just adding some new words to the default dictionary. If it is going to take a lot of work then forget the whole thing, and we can just carry on using our user-defined dictionaries.
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