Jon Hamkins wrote:
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
I have said this a number of times, and that at least the English
version is sadly deficient in compound words, at least the one in OOo
3.11 which I am still using because I am reluctant to give up the
personal dictionary to which I have added perhaps thousands of compound
words. If the current release of LO is significantly better in this
area I haven't heard of it. Nor do I know how to find and
save/copy/move my personal dictionary.
On a related matter, I believe that if a developer/programmer could put
instructions on this list, I believe that a few users like me with
greatly enhanced personal dictionaries could send them in as attachments
and someone could use them to build a better word list that would make
for a much better spell check function for LO.
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