Hello MFPA,
Monday, April 16, 2007, 2:35:34 AM, among other things, you wrote:
M I use British spelling but could not cope with TB's British
M dictionary as correct words kept being Americanised.
I haven't found this to be a frequent problem, in fact I am not sure that
Americanised is the correct term to use. In general it is good at
distinguishing between British and American spelling. If you are meaning
meaning that it chooses -ize instead of -ise endings, these days these
endings are often considered as optional even in British dictionaries.
Certainly it sometimes doesn't know some of the words that I use, but this
is a problem common to all abridged versions of a dictionary, and because of
the immense size of the English vocabulary most English dictionaries are of
necessity abridged to some degree.
*I* am quite happy to 'Add' my spelling version to the supplementary
dictionary when I have a conflict with the TB dictionary. Any deficiencies
will of course be more of a problem to non native English speakers who
perhaps more likely to use an English dictionary to correct true spelling
errors rather than mere typing errors.
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Best regards,
Roger
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