On 2024-07-15 19:23, Brian Barker wrote:
At 13:57 15/07/2024 -0400, Chris Johnson wrote:
I can't say I'm surprised. It doesn't appear in most dictionaries:
I have found, and added, a couple dictionaries, and lots of words.
I'd counsel against that. The more words you include in your spelling
dictionaries, the more chance there is of misspellings of some ordinary
words failing to be flagged because they happen to be detected as
correct spellings of obscure words that you are never likely to use.
On the flip side, nobody wants to see a page of red underlines that
imply the correctly spelled word is incorrectly spelled.
Did you see the University of Texas's glossy commencement brochure for its "School of Pubic Affairs"? See
https://tinyurl.com/yc8f4cdt . If you are unlikely to use the perfectly proper word "pubic", it is helpful if it > is *not* in your dictionary.
That is (probably) the result of sloppy proof reading.
I remember someone on one of these lists constantly bragging about how
many words he had managed to add to his spelling dictionary, evidently
oblivious of these niceties.
That might have been me. Between the various dictionaries i utilize, I
have somewhere between 700,000 and 1,000,000 words listed. Three of them
are language independent. (Numbers, Place-Names and People-names.) All
of the others are language dependent.
No: bigger is not necessarily better,
I constantly throw correctly spelled words into my dictionaries, because
they are red underlines. In a page of red underlines, the incorrectly
spelled word gets lost in the sea of correctly spelled red lined words.
the ideal spelling dictionary should be the right size, not simply as large as
possible.
Back when spelling dictionaries were separate programs, the dictionary
of one of the organizations had space for 520 words --- the five hundred
most commonly misspelled words, and 20 slots for the user to add their
most commonly spelling errors.
At times, I've pondered the usefulness of a LibreOffice extension that
has that functionality.
As you increase its size, you decrease the number of false positives whilst at
the same time increasing the number of false negatives. False positives are
dealt with by review, but false negatives will be left as errors.
The LibreOffice extension _Linguist_ will create a list of all words in
the document, with the number of times it is used. A quick scan of that
output should pick up words that are out of place. Using that UT School
of Public Affairs brochure as an example, both pubic, and public would
be listed. The pubic is obviously out of place.
The other technique is to read the document _backwards_.
Once upon a time I knew how to configure a screen reader to do that.
jonathon
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