On 04/22/2011 05:33 PM, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
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,....)
Well, the spell checker just needs a list of words -- grammar is
something else. OED2 contained 290,000 entries with a total of 690,000
word forms. OED3 has somewhat more; a solid word list in an office
suite should have somewhat fewer. You don't want to include obsolete
words that have a close but different spelling from common words, for
example.
----Jon
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