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voodoo
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Feb 19, 2009, 01:37 PM
 
Hey all!

So I was making a post on another forum and right-clicked on a word to spell-check it. Spell-checking dictionary is set to ENGLISH.

The word I wrote was: advancable (realize that this isn't correctly spelled or even a good word)

What my Mac suggested was this:



advancablfe



That's even worse than my own suggestion!! Does anyone know why this happened and how I can correct the spell checking dictionary of silly things like that?

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Feb 19, 2009, 07:22 PM
 
That's really odd. What's more, the word advanceable is supposedly incorrect but appears in the unix words file (/usr/share/dict/words). Google even suggests advancablfe should be advanceable.
     
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Feb 20, 2009, 03:36 PM
 
Yeah it is strange, but apparently nobody has an explanation for this one.
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Feb 20, 2009, 04:08 PM
 
What happens if you unlearn the word?
     
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Feb 20, 2009, 04:17 PM
 
Looks like someone made a typo when entering the words into the spellchecking dictionary. Here's how to fix it.

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Feb 22, 2009, 03:09 AM
 
Originally Posted by CharlesS View Post
Looks like someone made a typo when entering the words into the spellchecking dictionary. Here's how to fix it.
Filing a bug report is the only way to fix it? Oh well.
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Feb 22, 2009, 09:01 AM
 
This maybe a stupid suggestion but have you tried opening it again in Dictionary & go-to Menu>Edit>Delete to see if that gets rid of it?
     
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Feb 22, 2009, 10:54 AM
 
Good question, but it (advancablfe) doesn't appear as a word in the Dictionary.app -- it seems to be only part of the spelling dictionary and that trick doesn't seem to do it when applying it to the spelling dictionary -- unless I'm doing it wrong.
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Feb 23, 2009, 04:28 AM
 
So trying Choose Edit> Show Spelling & Grammar,
doesn't give you a list like "advance-able or advance able" which are the only suggestions I got when spelling advacnable. Then select the one you want then click Change.

Or has JKT suggested above typing the misspelled word in the Spelling dialogue, then click ignore.
I don't see this within user/share/dic/words ether!
     
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Feb 24, 2009, 02:21 PM
 
Originally Posted by DarkStarRed View Post
So trying Choose Edit> Show Spelling & Grammar,
doesn't give you a list like "advance-able or advance able" which are the only suggestions I got when spelling advacnable. Then select the one you want then click Change.

Or has JKT suggested above typing the misspelled word in the Spelling dialogue, then click ignore.
I don't see this within user/share/dic/words ether!
Yes, when I write advacnable, but not when I write advancable. Then I only get one suggestion, the silly one.
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