On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:52:10 -0500
Daniel Eells wrote:

> Hey,
>  So I'm a college student and I'm taking an online summer class and i
>  have
> noticed that your .dic files are note as good as they should be. So i
> am just suggesting that you guys take a little time to update those
> files. I mean i don't think it would be hard. Cause just about ever
> science word i use from or book comes up as not a word in your
> program.
>  Dan
> 

Scientific words are specialist words. I work in the Web. Would you like
your dictionary to contain all the specialist words of the computer
industry (words like foo, bar, foobar, Perl, ALGOL and Borroughs). I
used to work as an electrician, there was a specialist list of words for
that too. I also worked at a Hydro Electrical Generating station and the
list of words for that was different for that to the normal house wiring
industry.  By the way not all names are in the dictionary, but some are.
I find Biblical and Royal names come up a lot, but if you are in the
baby naming businness you probably want the lot in there. 

By the way what science are you in? I beleive the list of specialist
technical word will vary depending if it is brain surgery, rocket
science, or nuclear physics. I think if all aspects of science and every
other specialty covered by the dewey decimal system was taken into
account the dictionary would be larger than the OO.o program and doing
a spellcheck would be a prohibitive excercise.

I also believe that specialist dictionaries of words for specialist
purposes do exist. You may find that someone has added the one you want
as a dictionary already, if you are prepared to narrow down your request
to specifics.

-- 
Michael

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall
be well

 - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416

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