Your message dated Thu, 7 Aug 2025 22:13:21 +0000
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and subject line RE: Notice!!
has caused the Debian Bug report #893961,
regarding Ph.D. should not be marked as error in American English
to be marked as done.
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Package: libreoffice-writer
Version: 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u3
How to reproduce:
1) Open a fresh writer document.
2) Type in "Ph.D." (without quotation marks).
3) Mark the text as "English (USA)".
Observe that the abbreviation is underlined with a wave in red as if it were an
error. Removing the periods makes the warning go away. This misleads the reader
into thinking PhD is generally preferred over Ph.D. in the US English, which is
generally NOT the case.
Reasons:
- OED lists this as the main dictionary entry, cf.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/ph.d.
- On a personal experience, a personally known professional editor who is also a
native English speaker corrected my PhD to Ph.D. in a text explicitly marked as
a
US English text.
Since I'm not aware of which package is responsible (libreoffice, aspell,
hunspell, or ispell), I am submitting a bug against libreoffice-writer. Feel
free
to solve the problem yourself or redirect appropriately.
Thanks in advance,
Vasili
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From: HUGOT Léonor
Sent: Friday, August 8, 2025 5:41 AM
To: HUGOT Léonor <[email protected]>
Subject: Notice!!
Humanitarian Grant of 1.5M for you. Reply for claims
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