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English dict contains contains Joesph and Joesph's

Reported by kevina on 2007-11-20 02:12 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/3/
Orig: [ 883948 ] /usr/lib/aspell/english-med-only Error
From: Robert Uhl - eadmund
URL: http://sourceforge.net/tracker.php?aid=883948

/usr/lib/aspell/english-med-only contains Joesph and
Joesph's

British-ize dictionary accepts analyze and rejects analyse

Reported by tspiteri on 2010-03-04 10:05 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/33/
The british-ize dictionary correctly accepts organize, organization, catalyse, analysis, but it wrongly accepts analyze and rejects analyse. Analyze is an American word.

The Oxford English dictionary prefers -ize over -ise, so it prefers organize from organise. However, -yse is the only British option, -yze is American. This is also described in wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ise

I do not know if there are any similar words which are checked incorrectly.

Reinsurance words missing

Reported by tomasstraupis on 2010-12-03 18:59 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/43/
English dictionary is missing these reinsurance terms:

• reinsurer, reinsurers
• facultative, facultatively
• cedant
• insured (as a noun, meaning insured person. so a word "insureds" (plural) should be OK)

Missing words.

Reported by gtrentalancia on 2009-10-27 18:38 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/29/
The following words (and their British "-ise" version) are missing from hunspell's English dictionary: "concretize", "concretization".

remove dessicated

Reported by nemethl on 2008-12-16 08:28 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/17/
The bad word *dessicate was removed, but *dessicated not yet. Thanks, László

Source: http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=63541

Ununtu instead of Ubuntu

Reported by nemethl on 2007-11-26 13:41 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/6/
Hi Kevin,

First, thanks for your work. I have found this small bug in the Hunspell en_US dictionary.

Greets,
Laci

Can't build Revision: 89 "varcon.pm"

Reported by caolan on 2009-01-14 11:45 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/19/
I get
cd r/varcon; ./split
Can't locate varcon.pm in ...
in revision 89 from "use varcon qw(%map)"
is there a file missing in svn ?, or should that be satisfied by some dependency ?

(en_variant_2) furore

*Reported by anonymous on 2011-07-26 09:59 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/50/
This is a correct spelling for en-GB, while furor is a en-US spelling.
So needs a little changing in the files.

British -ize errors (practice)

Reported by nicholascole on 2009-06-28 10:29 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/27/
I have encountered the following errors in the English dictionaries for aspell:

The -ize dictionary for British English marks the word "practice" as an error.

British English retains the difference between practice (noun) and practise (verb), even when using -ize spellings. Authorities checked: the OED, Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English usage, first edition.

In addition "artefact" is the preferred British spelling of artifact. (OED consulted)

"matt" is the spelling for the US "matte" (though "matte" also exists in British English) (OED consulted.)

Best wishes,

Nicholas

"blog" and "blogging" are not in the aspell-en dictionary

Reported by crashsystems on 2009-04-02 01:42 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/22/
What I expected to happen:
I expected that aspell would recognize "blog" and "blogging" as properly spelled US English words.

What happened instead:
Aspell said that the above mentioned words are not properly spelled.

Duplicating the bug:
crashsystems@crashsystems:~$ aspell -a
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.6)
blog
& blog 12 0: bog, log, blag, bloc, biog, bldg, blow, blob, blot, clog, flog, slog

blogging
& blogging 16 0: blagging, bogging, logging, clogging, flogging, slogging, blocking, bulging, boggling, belonging, bagging, begging, bugging, lagging, legging, lugging

lsb_release -rd:
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

apt-cache policy aspell-en:
aspell-en:
Installed: 6.0-0-5.1
Candidate: 6.0-0-5.1
Version table:
*** 6.0-0-5.1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

en-CA Technicolor is a trademark

Reported by miken32 on 2009-05-28 19:38 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/26/
It should not be listed in the Canadian dictionary as Technicolour.

Just installed the en-CA dictionary for Firefox, which uses this word list. It's a great resource!

Word suggestions

Reported by rebelwebmaster on 2007-11-29 00:28 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/8/
Here are a few words not in the current en_US dictionary which you may want to include:

https
Hunspell
MySpell
phisher
phishing
spammer
Ubuntu
uninstall
uninstalled
uninstaller
uninstalling
unsubscribe
webmistress

I'll leave it to you to decide which of these words you want to accept and what flags to attach to them. I also may have included redundant words. I'm not completely sure how Hunspell handles suffixes.

'vaginas' missing from en_US

Reported by oh_noname on 2010-07-04 13:59 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/37/
The plural form of "vagina", "vaginas" is missing from the en_US dictionary. "vaginae" is currently the only accepted plural form.

Note: present in the GB dictionary.

(en-*) 'adrenalin' is a trademark vs 'adrenaline'

Reported by anonymous on 2011-07-14 15:21 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/49/
Dict: en-
'adrenalin' is a trademark vs 'adrenaline'

should trademark names be included in a dictionary?

en_CA should accept "ise" spellings

Reported by kevina on 2007-11-20 02:29 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/5/
Orig: [ 1178662 ] en_CA should accept "ise" spellings
URL: http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1178662
From: Martin Pitt - mpitt

In Canada, both "realise" and "realize" are accepted spellings. This applies to many other -ise words. Among the people I know, the-ise variants are even prefered (but this might be a local thing).

When I set the language to Canadian English, many applications (e. g. evolution) tell me that "realise" and friends) are incorrectly spelled.

(This is from http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8598\)

add more words with -able suffix

Reported by yecril71pl on 2010-09-16 11:33 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/41/
like clonable, parsable, sendable, clickable
(or perhaps modify the Aspell engine to allow them wholesale)

missing word: experimentalism

Reported by nemethl on 2009-01-28 14:55 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/20/
Mozilla en_US dictionary misses this word.
Reported by Amir Elisha Aharoni.

Missing word

Reported by gtrentalancia on 2009-12-15 15:23 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/32/
The following word is missing from hunspell's English dictionary:
"detailedly".

en_US: include "dialogue" and derivatives

Reported by pfrields on 2008-01-31 19:38 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/11/
This is an accepted US English spelling of the word meaning "conversation between two parties."

Words in 2of12inf not in 2+2lemma

Reported by verylowsodium on 2010-08-20 19:41 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/39/
"absolutest", "darlingest", "rivetted", "rivetting".

obscure calender hides misspellings of calendar

Reported by caolan on 2011-02-08 12:56 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/46/
Calender is a pretty obscure word, and in most cases is a misspelling of Calendar. Attached is my effort to tune wordlist to only include Calender at the very high levels

Missing word in list : "deniability"

*Reported by anonymous on 2011-03-11 10:10 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/47/
It's a real word, see http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deniability

missing words: "vertices" and "indices"

Reported by snogglethorpe on 2009-04-10 04:53 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/23/
The following words are not recognized by the "aspell-en" dictionary:n

"vertices" is a [very common] plural form of the word "vertex"

"indices" is a [very common] plural form of the word "index"

I'm using the "aspell" (version 0.60.6-1) and the "aspell-en" (6.0-0-5.1) packages in debian.

References:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vertices
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/vertices

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/indices
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/indices

"encryption" is <- level 60, but "decryption" == level 70

Reported by caolan on 2010-06-06 20:02 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/36/
I get "encryption" accepted at a valid word with the hunspell spell checking dictionaries generated at the default level 60, but only get "decryption" accepted when this is bumped to level 70

"a lot" isn't suggested as a replacement for "alot"

Reported by rebelwebmaster on 2008-01-13 02:09 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/9/
This was manually fixed in the Mozilla tree in bug 340634. It would be nice to get it fixed upstream as well.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340634

scowl/src/filter filters out words with "." in them

Reported by caolan on 2008-11-28 10:28 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/15/
So while "e.g." and "i.e." appear in some input wordlists they can't appear in the output hunspell dicts

scowl/src/filter
e.g.
eg.

would output just
eg
removing the . from the end of eg. and removing the e.g. word totally

Is this intentional or an oversight ?

Remove "severals"

Reported by milek_pl on 2008-11-30 16:25 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/16/
The "severals" from list english-words.80 and move to english-words.95. The word shouldn't be listed in aspell/hunspell dictionary, as it is now, as it's very rarely used and most of the time it's a misspelling. I have yet to find a dictionary that notes the use of "severals" as a noun.

Missing word

Reported by gtrentalancia on 2009-11-17 17:40 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/30/
The following word is missing from hunspell's English dictionary: "mandatorily".

en_GB contains "offencive" and "defencive"

Reported by alex34567 on 2010-12-07 03:10 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/44/
The en_GB dictionary uses "offencive" and "defencive" rather than "offensive" and "defensive". To my knowledge, "offencive" and "defencive" are not common spellings in any version of the English language.

Aspell flags "doesn’t"

Reported by yecril71pl on 2011-01-14 17:29 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/45/
One possible replacement being "doesn't". However, I do not want to write "doesn't". I ended up writing "doesn‘t" several times, flagged in Firefox but perfectly good for Aspell…

en_US: include "barack" and "obama"

Reported by mozpkim on 2008-07-11 00:03 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/12/
For the US presidential candidate.

word "reticle" missing

Reported by hcel on 2009-07-07 12:27 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/28/
AKA a "Cross-Hair".

Add "blonde"

Reported by jorend on 2009-04-24 13:00 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/25/
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488881\#c9

add words 'Barack' and 'Obama'

Reported by sullis on 2009-04-23 18:43 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/24/

I did not find 'Barack' or 'Obama' in any of the word lists in 12dicts version 5.0

Add fetus to en-gb

*Reported by anonymous on 2010-03-24 10:34 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/34/
Fetus is the correct (Latin) spelling, especially in scientific and technical writing and recently in British English. It is commonly spelled 'foetus' in British English, out of tradition.

OED 2nd Ed says this:

fetus /'fi:ts/ ( (Brit.) (in non-technical use) also foetus )

→ noun
(pl. fetuses) an unborn or unhatched offspring of a mammal, in particular, an unborn human more than eight weeks after conception.

• ORIGIN late Middle English: from Latin fetus ‘pregnancy, childbirth, offspring’.
  (USAGE The spelling foetus has no etymological basis but is recorded from the 16th century and until recently was the standard British spelling in both technical and non-technical use. In technical usage fetus is now the standard spelling throughout the English-speaking world, but foetus is still found in British English outside technical contexts.)

optimization/M -> optimization/SM

*Reported by anonymous on 2011-03-29 01:19 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/48/
I submit, without proof, that "optimizations" is a word.

Obscenity listed as replacement

Reported by jrstark on 2009-12-08 19:40 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/31/
I've verified this on two SMF forums. If you run spell check on the drug name mepivacaine, the suggested replacement is motherfucking. Also works for the misspelled mepivicaine. Have not yet found any other words that trigger it.

Inconsistencies in English wordlists

Reported by kevina on 2007-11-20 02:04 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/2/
Orig: [ 564321 ] Inconsistencies in English wordlists
From: Ed Avis - epaepa

A while ago I was working on a big list of
american/british/canadian spelling conversions (more comprehensive than varcon) and while trying
to automatically generate part of this list I found lots of inconsistencies in aspell's English wordlists.

These were a few cases of variant spellings being
listed in the wrong lists, many cases of possessives being present but not the base word (eg
american includes Grecism's but not Grecism) and
thousands of cases where words had posessives that shouldn't (eg Anglicanize's).

So I've got this big big list of inconsistencies, but
in a format that would make it easy to read with Perl and correct the wordlists automatically. The trouble is that Aspell's wordlists are made by merging together several others, and if those are 'buggy' there's not
much to do about it. For words which are missing you could have an ad-hoc additional list to make things consistent; for words which shouldn't be there at
all it's not clear what to do. Although I think that
ispell's wordlists are responsible for most of those errors, and I have already submitted corrections to the ispell maintainer.

Anyway, for the record, the attached file is a big list of inconsistencies found in the american, british, canadian and english wordlists.

The List: https://gist.github.com/kevina/32c0da8374fd91ebc42e

Add "afterwards"

Reported by rebelwebmaster on 2008-12-18 03:57 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/18/
Not currently recognized. Per Merriam-Webster, it is a legitimate variant of afterward.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/afterwards

Missing MySpell affixes

Reported by nemethl on 2007-11-26 13:50 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/7/
There are a lot of missing affixed form compared with the old MySpell dictionary in the new Hunspell en_US, for example missing YS flags of abdominal (eg. "abdominally" is not recognized now). I believe, we need to limit only rare root words, not rare affixed forms (especially for long roots, those couldn't be confused).

The future will be a full morphological description of the English dictionary removing the not special affixed forms from the dic file and optionally add morphological descriptions/stems etc. for Hunspell.

Missing words

Reported by malat on 2010-03-26 09:21 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/35/
Hi,

Would you please consider adding the following words:

morphogen:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/morphogen

poisson:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poisson

acception (also on premium merriam)
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Acception

accessor
for some reasont he plural (accessors) is accepted.

voxels:
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/voxels

per se:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/per%20se

unicity
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unicity

blastula
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blastula

surjection
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surjection

parallelizable
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/parallelizable

subjacent
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subjacent

singularize
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/singularize

arborescence
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arborescence

And finally I am not sure about 'modelization'

Thanks for your excellent database !

Devel Docs: the latest version is not there

Reported by yecril71pl on 2010-09-16 10:23 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/40/
Visit "Devel Docs, Notes" at <URL:http://aspell.net/dev-html/index.html\#Top> says:

The latest version of this document can be found at http://savannah.gnu.org/download/aspell/manual/devel/devel.html.

The URL, however, contains ERROR 404 - PAGE NOT FOUND.

"offensive" missing from British english dictionary

Reported by kevina on 2007-11-20 02:18 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/4/
Orig: [ 1114719 ] "offensive" missing from British english dictionary
URL:
From: Robin Green - greenrd

Please see
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/aspell-en/+bug/18438

scowl/src/make-README missing

Reported by caolan on 2009-02-16 14:28 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/21/
In current svn there's a scowl/Makefile target on README which depends on a make-README which doesn't seem to exist. Probably just not svn added

somebody's, everybody's not accepted by american dict

Reported by kevina on 2007-11-20 01:58 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/1/
Orig From: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1525789&group_id=245&atid=100245

Some words containing ' are not accepted by the
american dict,

somebody's
everybody's
one's

en_GB has marshaling instead of marshalling

Reported by mkende on 2010-10-09 18:15 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/42/
The Oxford dictionaries report that the correct spelling in British English for to marshal is "marshalling" (and "marshaling" for en_US). See e.g. here:
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/marshal?view=uk

Aspell thinks otherwise.

Remove 'underly'

Reported by milek_pl on 2008-11-26 15:53 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/14/
The speller dictionary (included in SCOWL as english-words.95) contains 'underly' that is not any dictionary word, as far as I know (no other wordlist seems to contain it). Please remove - even if it is a word found in some dictionary, it must be substandard, so is not suitable for spell-checking.

Add "GHz"

Reported by nemethl on 2008-01-30 12:50 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/10/
A bug report from OpenOffice.org project: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=75772

Word "lbw" in 2of4brif

Reported by verylowsodium on 2010-08-20 19:40 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/38/
This certainly looks like an error. In any event, "lbw" is not present in 2+2lemma

English contractions.80

Reported by kevina on 2008-07-16 17:34 UTC
Orig. from https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/13/
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:20:20 +1000
From: John Pascoe <awpascoe at bigpond net au>
To: [email protected]
Subject: English contractions.80

In the abovementioned list the word "dog'sbane" occurs.

Definitely not a contraction. Your software perhaps regards all mid-word apostrophes as contraction indicators in which case this type of error could
be repeated with other words.

My Shorter Oxford and Chambers dictionaries both list "dogbane" and "dog's bane".

Worldbook Dictionary ( my "American dictionary") lists "dogbane" and "dog's-bane".

No dictionary that I have access to lists the form quoted at the top so I'm not even sure that it is a valid possessive.

John Pascoe
...
AUSTRALIA