M Henri Day wrote:
Does the OOo spell checker really change the orthography of incoming
documents ? Sounds a bit far-fetched to me. Entering a word like
«metrology»
in a document in Writer will, as Mr Goodman has seen, give rise to a
query
if the the dictionary is enabled and the word entered is not listed
therein,
and some editing programmes do allow automatic orthographical changes in
documents being written, i e, «teh» --> «the» (is this the case for
Writer
in OOo 2.2 ?), but do they go so far as to change them in downloaded
documents without asking first ?...
By the way, I agree with Mr Goodman : by all means do include
«metrology» in
the English-language dictionary for OOo ?...
Henri
2007/4/30, goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Please add the word "metrology" (the science that deals with
measurement)
to your spell checker. I recently downloaded a list of Nobel Prize
laureates that someone had compiled and found Albert Michelson listed
for
"precision meteorology." I chuckled at this and mentioned the error
at a
celebration of the 100th anniversary of Michelson's Nobel Prize. I
thought
this was simply a case of careless editing by the list compiler, but
one of
my colleagues suggested that "metrology" might have been changed by a
spell-checker. I discounted this theory at first but I entered
"metrology,"
in OpenOffice 2.0 and sure enough it got the red underline! The "
montrose.net" spell checker has it right, by the way.
"Michelson didn't invent doppler radar 100 years ago!"
Charles Goodman
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: (510) 548- 8860
For what it's worth, I just checked this with OOo 2.2, US English
dictionary. It does indeed show "metrology" as not in the dictionary.
However, it does not suggest meteorology as a replacement. And it is
definitely not in the replacement table (where "teh" is automatically
replaced with "the" for example).
So we can't blame someone coming up with meteorology for Albert
Michelson's field of specialization on OOo's spell check at least!
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