>> From: Karl Berry >> Subject: [Aspell-user] considering word in master dictionary misspelled? >> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:17:44 GMT >> >> The word "wold" (wolds, wold's) is in the Aspell master English >> dictionary (aspell -d en dump master | aspell expand | grep wold). >> >> I would like to consider this word as a misspelling, i.e., as if it were >> not in the master dictionary, so that >> echo wold | aspell list >> would output "wold" instead of being silent. (In my world, "wold" >> is always a misspelling of "would", not the Old English word for a wood.) >> >> Short of dumping all the words, removing the wold variants, and making a >> new custom dictionary, is it possible? For example, is there some way >> in a personal dictionary, or some other file, to "override" (excise, >> remove) an existing master dictionary entry? >> >> I looked in the manual and did various searches to no avail. One person >> with essentially the same question did end up making a new dictionary: >> https://ryanveach.com/146/aspell-custom-dictionary/ >> >> Any info appreciated. --thanks, karl. > > I have the same problem. > > Using the British dictionary -d en_GB, the US spelling of "color" came up > with a choice with a word called "colorr". I have never heard of it. > Looked it up on the Web and found nothing. What does it mean and why is > in > there? > > Using a hex editor, I could find no words in the dictionaries. I was > thinking of deleting that word to see if it would not show. > > My word processor, Firefox spell checker, Chrome spell checker all marked > the word colorr as incorrect. > > We need some way to filter out, override, remove an unwanted word in the > existing master dictionary entry.
From: "William H. Magill" To: "Bill Crockett" Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 7:50 PM Subject: Re: [Aspell-user] considering word in master dictionary misspelled? The probability is that you saved the word "colorr" in your personal dictionary in error. I have done that myself many times. William H. Magill Thank you. You are correct. In the Aspell directory, I found "en.prepl" and "en.pws" had been created. I did not notice them. Looking inside was "colorr" and 20 other strange words. I deleted both files and ran Aspell and found no reference to colorr. But then "en.prepl" and "en.pws" were re-created. Is this normal? I don't want a personal dictionary. _______________________________________________ Aspell-user mailing list Aspell-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-user