** Changed in: aspell-en (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18438
Title:
aspell's British English dictionary has spelling mistakes.
Status in aspell-en package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
aspell's British English dictionary is perturbed by my British
English.
$ echo offensive/advisor/panellist/practice | tr / \\012 | aspell pipe
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.50.5)
& offensive 6 0: offencive, offensives, offensively, inoffensive,
unoffensive, offence
& advisor 9 0: adviser, advise, ad visor, ad-visor, advisory, advisee,
divisor, advice, advisor's
& panellist 8 0: panelist, panel list, panel-list, panellists, panelists,
panelised, panelist's, panels
& practice 6 0: practise, practiser, proactive, practised,
practises, Prentice
$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
$ dpkg -l | grep aspell
ii aspell 0.50.5-5 GNU Aspell spell-checker
ii aspell-bin 0.50.5-5 GNU Aspell standalone spell-check
utilities
ii aspell-en 0.51-1-1 English dictionary for GNU Aspell
ii libaspell15 0.50.5-5 The GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime
toolkit
$
Here's the Company Oxford English Dictionary's opinion.
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/offensive?view=uk
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/advise?view=uk
http://www.askoxford.com/results/?view=dict&freesearch=panellist&branch=13842570&textsearchtype=exact
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/practice?view=uk
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