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   On Sun, 2/15/2026 9:46 AM, Paul wrote:   
   > On Sun, 2/15/2026 8:53 AM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >> As I type (e. g. in this compose window in Thunderbird, or in a webform   
   >> - but not, I've just checked, in Notepad!), words mis-spelt are   
   >> underlined in wiggly red; I presume this is something built-in to   
   >> Windows 10.   
   >>   
   >> Right-clicking on such a word brings up a menu, including suggestions   
   >> and also Add To Dictionary.   
   >>   
   >> I've always been wary of such, in case I add something that was just a   
   >> genuine mistype, as I don't know where the dictionary is nor how to edit   
   >> it. Anyone know?   
   >>   
   >> (I've just discovered that right-clicking on the word after adding - as   
   >> I just did with "webform" above - provides an Undo Add To Dictionary   
   >> option. But of course that will only work straight after the adding, not   
   >> much later, as for example might happen when you added a genuine   
   >> mis-spelling you thought was right and only much later discover wasn't.)   
   >>   
   >   
   > I got the hint on what to look for, from an MS Blog entry -- "spellcheck".   
   >   
   > MsSpellCheckingHost.exe used by Notepad.exe   
   >   
   > C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Spelling\neutral\default.dic   
   > C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Spelling\en-US\default.exc   
   >   
   > C:\Windows\Globalization\ELS\SpellDictionaries\MsSp7en-US.dub   
   > C:\Windows\Globalization\ELS\SpellDictionaries\MsSp7en-US.lex   
   >   
   > *******   
   >   
   > Thunderbird and Firefox have a third-party package (hunspell?). Pan   
   NewsReader   
   > also uses Hunspell.   
   >   
   >    "You can copy the two dictionary files (xx-XX.aff and xx-XX.dic) to the   
   >     dictionaries folder in the Firefox program folder (C:\Program   
   Files\Mozilla Firefox\)."   
   >   
   > That gives me   
   >   
   >    C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\dictionaries\en-US.aff    3,074 bytes   
   >    C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\dictionaries\en-US.dic  576,688 bytes   
   >   
   > The "Personal dictionaries" could be somewhere in the bigger (user) profile   
   > folder, but I cannot find them at the moment. I tried to use Procmon   
   > to spot them, but didn't get a ReadFile event I needed.   
      
    https://support.mozilla.org/gl/questions/1358797   
      
      "There are two ways of editing the Personal Dictionary.   
       Either via Thunderbird or by accessing the    persdict.dat   
       file in the 'profile name' folder.   
      "   
      
   The file extension appears to be a different choice.   
      
     Paul   
      
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