#151397 ibritish&iamerican: doesn't know some words

Package:
ispell
Source:
ispell
Description:
International Ispell (an interactive spelling corrector)
Submitter:
Martin Michlmayr
Date:
2012-12-04 10:06:06 UTC
Severity:
minor
#151397#5
Date:
2002-06-29 19:04:11 UTC
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ibritish&iamerican don't know some words:

echolalia
epistemic
explanandum
explanans
hominid
nativistic

And two technical terms from Philosophy of Mind:
eliminativism (see http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/eliminativism.html)
qualia (see http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/qualia.html)
#151397#10
Date:
2002-07-02 03:20:43 UTC
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To:
Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> writes:
...

I haven't checked to see whether those are in the "large"
dictionaries -- have you?  The ispell author recommends
that obscure words not be used for spell checkers, and
I tend to agree with his advice.

I wouldn't want to add these only for debian, and I suspect
upstream would reject them -- but I'll try passing them to
him if you find they're not already in the large ispell
dictionaries.

Let me know what you think (and what you find); thanks.
#151397#15
Date:
2002-07-02 03:20:43 UTC
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Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> writes:
...

I haven't checked to see whether those are in the "large"
dictionaries -- have you?  The ispell author recommends
that obscure words not be used for spell checkers, and
I tend to agree with his advice.

I wouldn't want to add these only for debian, and I suspect
upstream would reject them -- but I'll try passing them to
him if you find they're not already in the large ispell
dictionaries.

Let me know what you think (and what you find); thanks.
#151397#20
Date:
2002-07-04 14:50:42 UTC
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* David Coe <davidc@debian.org> [2002-07-01 23:20]:
dictionaries.  Perhaps you can pass these words on:

explanandum
explanans
And two technical terms from Philosophy of Mind:
eliminativism (see http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/eliminativism.html)
qualia (see http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/qualia.html)

Also, perhaps a README.Debian would be nice which would describe how
to generate a large dictionary?
#151397#25
Date:
2003-09-12 20:32:23 UTC
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But ispell is able to guess that it's re+occur+ing.

(or isn't this a bug?)
#151397#30
Date:
2003-09-12 21:46:38 UTC
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Interesting; with the current (Debian unstable) 3.1.20.0-3, using *either*
iamerican or ibritish, it suggests 'reoccurring' as the correct spelling.

Is 'reoccuring' correct in british?
#151397#39
Date:
2012-12-04 10:02:37 UTC
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No, "reoccurring" would be standard in British English; I don't recall
seeing "reoccuring".  oxforddictionaries.com agrees.  Wiktionary gives
"reoccuring" as a "common misspelling of reoccurring".