[KevinH]

Thanks ... I found a second list of the hyphenated words and it had over 47000 entrees.

I think the only solution is to remove the "-" from the WORDCHARS and accept anything that is okay when split into separate words at the hyphen. It seems scowl was based off this assumption and I really do not want to have to add and maintain 40+ thousand hyphenated words. Our old dictionary used this approach as well.

It is always something!

And I learned something new. Hunspell is smarter than MySpell and will actually try splitting hyphenated words and checking each one automatically whether there is a "-" in Wordchars or not.

So that means we really only need to add hyphenated words that are not already covered by that rule which seems to cover a lot of words, just not self defense or self-defence.

So it looks like I can take my list of 47000 hyphenated words and spellcheck them using hunspell to see how many of them actually need to be special cased other than self-defense/self-defence.