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rayandrews · #1 Post by **rayandrews** » 2019-10-10 23:29

Where does one offer additions or corrections to spell checkers? I notice missing words quite often.

#2 Post by **arochester** » 2019-10-11 10:01

Which spell checkers?

Examples of words?

rayandrews · #3 Post by **rayandrews** » 2019-10-15 02:48

Spell check in any app that has it. Thunderbird for example. As I understand it, the dictionaries are separate and used by many apps as needed. "Asymptote" is missing, for example.

#4 Post by **sunrat** » 2019-10-15 06:02

Thunderbird dictionary is supplied by hunspell (or myspell). I just checked mine and "asymptote" is included and spelt correctly. For a word which is not included, a wavy red line appears and you should be able to right-click on it and select "Add To Dictionary".

Check if hunspell is installed for your locale (eg. I have hunspell-en-au, hunspell-en-gb, hunspell-en-us plus libhunspell )

Code: Select all

dpkg -l |grep hunspell

There are dozens of location-specific hunspell packages but you only need the ones for your own language and locale.
https://packages.debian.org/buster/hunspell-dictionary

rayandrews · #5 Post by **rayandrews** » 2019-10-16 13:20

Thanks. I have half a dozen 'aspell' or 'hunspell' variations here. How do we know which ones are active? Anyway, no 'asymptote' here. I know I can add words, but what I'd like to know is how one gets in touch with whoever it is that maintains these dictionaries since I find missing words quite often. Most of them are scientific or tech so easy to miss.

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