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Built-in OS X spellcheck being funky
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Posting Junkie
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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?
Thanks
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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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Posting Junkie
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Yeah it is strange, but apparently nobody has an explanation for this one.
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What happens if you unlearn the word?
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Looks like someone made a typo when entering the words into the spellchecking dictionary. Here's how to fix it.
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Posting Junkie
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Originally Posted by CharlesS
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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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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Posting Junkie
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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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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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Posting Junkie
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Originally Posted by DarkStarRed
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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