** Changed in: aspell-en (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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Title:
aspell's British English dictionary has spelling
Aspell and English wordlist author here:
Most of these are now fixed upstream. Please see:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1834890group_id=10079atid=1014602
Please direct non-Ubuntu specific comments to the bug report above.
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prizes is the plural of the noun prize in British English.
$ aspell pipe prizes
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.6)
prizes 40 0: prices, prises, Price's, praises, price's, pries, prise's,
proses, prezzies, prides, primes, preses, prise, Perice's,
Yes, it's still an issue in both lucid and maverick. (There's trivial
reproducers in the many comments in the bug)
** Changed in: aspell-en (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Confirmed
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aspell's British English dictionary has spelling mistakes.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18438
You
Thank you for posting this issue.
Does this issue occur in Lucid?
** Changed in: aspell-en (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Incomplete
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aspell's British English dictionary has spelling mistakes.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/18438
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My issue with the dictionaries is not that some words are missing, but
that words are IN the dictionary that should not be. When spell checking
my thesis I found that feces was in the British english dictionary
(despite being American spelling), and faeces was not.
A missing word isn't really a
It is rather concerning that such a major bug is ranked only Medium in
importance and is currently unassigned.
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aspell's British English dictionary has spelling mistakes.
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Bugs, which is
Another one for the list:
$ echo homophobe | aspell pipe
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.5)
homophobe 5 0: homophobes, homophone, homophobia, homophobic, homophony
How can the plural exist in the dictionary, but not the singular?
Bizarre.
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aspell's British
After a word with a wordlist/aspell developer it seems this problem
could largely be solved by effectively using the various other
dictionaries included by aspell-en, such as the variant dictionaries,
and also switching to the larger dictionary size (say all the way up to
95).
To understand what
** Changed in: aspell-en (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Daniel Silverstone = (unassigned)
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Another word aspell can't spell: 'sweated':
$ echo sweated | aspell pipe
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.4)
sweated 23 0: sweat ed, sweat-ed, swatted, seated, sweater, swotted,
sweaters, wested, sedated, swathed, swayed, sweats, sated, sweat, sweatier,
sweat's,
More...
$ echo misspelt | aspell pipe
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.4)
misspelt 9 0: miss pelt, miss-pelt, misspell, misspent, misspelled,
misspells, misspend, misdealt, spelt
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/misspell?view=uk
Is anyone watching this bug?
I don't have enough oomph around here to change the importance.
Hopefully someone who does agrees with me will do it?
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