Description: When dictionary is set to English usa or English UK/British, it appears that the dictionary is not properly stocked with reference words / and examples. Attached is a screen shot of what I am facing with. Many common words, anagrams, abbreviations are missing or wrong. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open swriter, type a few sentences, words, abbreviations, few hyphenated words 2. Check on those spell check says is wrong. 3. See suggested corrections offered . The choice of corrections are not accurate most of the time. Actual Results: i look up spelling on google or other dictionaries and manually correct them Expected Results: Auto correct function , spell check functions ,though minor, becomes quite a annoying factor Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info:
Created attachment 146450 [details] Screen shot of example of faulty dictionary
Pre Approved, Pre-Approved, Pre-Ordered, Pre-Order are some of the words that are highlighted as wrong and suggested replacement for that word is entirely wrong.
CONFIRMED on Windows 10 and LibreOffice 6.2.0.0.alpha1 (x64)
(In reply to Marc Schröder from comment #3) > CONFIRMED on Windows 10 and LibreOffice 6.2.0.0.alpha1 (x64) Marc, if you can confirm a bug, you can change bug status to NEW. => NEW because of comment 3
[15:24] <marcoagpinto> ahhhhh [15:24] <marcoagpinto> pre-approved isn't in the speller [15:24] <marcoagpinto> Oxford doesn't have that word, and Collins says it is one word "preapproved" [15:25] <marcoagpinto> the easiest fix will be adding the word "pre" to the speller [15:25] <marcoagpinto> it is a valid word according to Oxford [15:25] <marcoagpinto> but it will only be available in 6.3 or if in January the people downloads the .oxt from the official site [15:25] <marcoagpinto> bearon: ^^ [15:27] <marcoagpinto> 41275) pre [15:27] <marcoagpinto> added!!!!
The intent of this bug report is not just to fix one spelling mistake, but to evaluate the entire dictionary database to see where the words come from.
(In reply to NARAYAN from comment #6) > The intent of this bug report is not just to fix one spelling mistake, but > to evaluate the entire dictionary database to see where the words come from. Yes, and I have just fixed it: I added "pre" to the GB speller, so, if it is used with an hyphen, words won't be flagged: pre-test pre-reform pre-word But I am only the GB maintainer, for the other spellers, please open a case in Kevin Atkinson's GitHub: https://github.com/en-wl/wordlist Anyway, LibreOffice only updates the spellers in each major release, so this will only be available in 6.3 since 6.2 has closed commits. You can however download the OXT in January since I update every two months.
Please don't close this bug at as I will provide a list of few other hyphenated words that can be hard coded
(In reply to Marco A.G.Pinto from comment #7) > > Anyway, LibreOffice only updates the spellers in each major release, so this > will only be available in 6.3 since 6.2 has closed commits. > What do you mean by 'closed commits' ? LibreOffice 6.2 is still under development and the the branch off is due to this week -> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/6.2
(In reply to Xisco Faulí from comment #9) > (In reply to Marco A.G.Pinto from comment #7) > > > > Anyway, LibreOffice only updates the spellers in each major release, so this > > will only be available in 6.3 since 6.2 has closed commits. > > > > What do you mean by 'closed commits' ? LibreOffice 6.2 is still under > development and the the branch off is due to this week -> > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/6.2 Xisco, Áron Budea told me that the spellers are only updated in major releases to avoid issues with backporting, so I only commit twice a year in Gerrit... May and November?
@Marco, so you gonna commit it now, in November ?
(In reply to Xisco Faulí from comment #11) > @Marco, so you gonna commit it now, in November ? I already committed the November version, a few days before the official date: https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/english-dictionaries
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It still exists. See attachment. However in https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pre-, this is how the preposition "Pre" defined. Perhaps as language evolves, it is better for user to add to dictionary and as such if enough people add similar spelled words, it can be updated. After all language is defined by people, contemporary to their times and not set in stone for eternity. Also , it would be a good idea to add a function or a feature to not just populate suggestions from one dictionary set, but a "search alternative spellings" button or next step to resolving this or similar situations. While typing the following 3 words, the chrome browser for me flagged this as incorrect spelling. Now they have a feature called enhanced spell check. So under that, when i turned it ON, the below all shows as correct spelling. Preapproved , Pre-Approved, Pre APPROVED _- ALL AUTO corrected to correct spelling when i adjusted my browser to enhanced spell check. So that is one feature i am suggesting to either borrow this feature , integrate with google enhanced spell check API ( Not sure how well it works for other NON -English languages) ..
Created attachment 155765 [details] Screen shot of spelling correction offered by swriter
Created attachment 155766 [details] Enhanced spelling correction ( and enhanced spelling check) offered by Chrome browser when typing in any text field
To clarify my above comment, all the below variations of spelling, under google enhanced search are correctly spelled Preapproved , Pre-Approved, Pre APPROVED.
@NARAYAN The UK speller maintained by me accepts the prefix "pre": - pre-school; - pre-house. etc. In words with hyphen, Hunspell only accept them if they are in the speller or if the words around the hyphens are valid. So, all one has to do is to add "pre" to the speller. I have done so in UK, but it seems Kevin Atkinson hasn't done the same, at least in the US one which I tested moments ago. Someone must go to his GitHub and make that suggestion.
(In reply to Marco A.G.Pinto from comment #18) > @NARAYAN > > The UK speller maintained by me accepts the prefix "pre": > - pre-school; > - pre-house. > > etc. > > In words with hyphen, Hunspell only accept them if they are in the speller > or if the words around the hyphens are valid. > > So, all one has to do is to add "pre" to the speller. > > I have done so in UK, but it seems Kevin Atkinson hasn't done the same, at > least in the US one which I tested moments ago. > > Someone must go to his GitHub and make that suggestion. Right, so let's close this