Hi *, On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Jon Hamkins <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/06/2011 04:54 AM, toki wrote: > >> There are roughly one billion words in the English language. You could >> have a LibO spell checker that contains each of those words. > > Actually, there are only about one million English words in English, and > that's including the 500,000 or so scientific words. > > http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/JohnnyLing.shtml
Note that a spell checker doesn't just need to list the words, but needs to know all forms of the words (plural form, genitive form, different times,....) And of course rarely it is also wiser to not accept a word if it is likely that it was not the intended one (but then this overlaps with the functionality of a grammar checker) ciao Christian -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
