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Thanks SimonI am beginning to suspect the way will lead to madness. Specialised spelt with a Z and similar words. The double Ss and the double ps etc. Probably will just forget the whole thing. Thanks
Rich Brown Youth Worker 07546 804439 On 12/09/2023 14:32, Simon Waters wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 September 2023 12:09:46 BST Rich Brown wrote:One of the things that irritates me about the version of Firefox I have installed is that it has a US dictionary installed and therefore doesn't spell check correctly. I have installed a UK dictionary but it allows US spellings of quite a few words. I have since discovered there is a UK version of Firefox but finding it difficult to install. Manjaro doesn't have it as a package. I have downloaded the tar.bz2 version but not sure what to do from there. Can anybody help please? ThanksWhat words are bugging you? I get the irritation, but I suspect the English GB Language dictionary is as good as it is likely to get from a third party dictionary. A quick test suggests it is pretty good, I pasted a bunch of UK/US language spelling differences from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ American_and_British_English_spelling_differences Into a pastebin and let the browser pretty consistently underlines the US versions as misspellings. It gets all "-re" versus "-er" right, obviously a few of those do spell English words where done are "-er", in that Wiki page "metre" (GB) becomes "meter" (US) which is the only US spelling not underlined in that section using the GB dictionary, which looks correct. The only obvious failing is double "s" in: busses, bussed, bussing Also doesn't have: libellee and triallist (But they aren't common, and the later is probably not preferred GB spelling even if it is not wrong). It was also going to allow "aerie" but really I'm not throwing any stones, its conception of GB English is way better than mine, which is probably all you can ask of a dictionary. Be nice if they provided an easy way to blacklist works, but probably by that point for want a style tools rather than a spell checking tool. Ultimatelty ".dic" files are glorified text files, so you could remove or correct words that bug you, but suspect down this way madness lies. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG FAQ: https://www.dcglug.org.uk/faq/
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