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Title:
  British English (en-gb) spell checker treats ordinal numbers (1st,
  2nd, 3rd, etc.) as errors

Status in “aspell-en” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: thunderbird

  When set to use the British English spell check dictionary, Thunderbird 
treats 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc. as incorrectly spelled when the spell 
checker is run (although they are not marked with the "as you type" red 
underlines.)  The spell checker suggests "St", "Nd", "Rd", "Th" as 
alternatives, but these are not correct (they should be lower-case.)
  Interestingly, if I change the language to US English, "2nd" is still 
identified as wrong, with suggestions of "ND" and "Nd" (in that order) but the 
others are seen as correct with the US English dictionary.  And if I switch to 
the Australian English dictionary, all are treated as incorrect again (as with 
en-gb) but it doesn't even suggest "Nd" or "Th" (but does have the "St" and 
"Rd" suggestions.)

  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Start writing a new email in Thunderbird
  2. Set spell-check language to "English (GB)"
  3. In the message body, type "1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th"
  4. Click Spell to run the spell checker

  Expected result: They should be accepted as correct spellings.
  Actual result: All five are identified as incorrect spellings by the spell 
checker (but not by the "as you type" red underlines.)

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Jan 14 13:15:54 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  Package: mozilla-thunderbird 2.0.0.23+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
  SourcePackage: thunderbird
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686

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