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   Paul in Houston TX to J. P. Gilliver   
   Re: Where is the dictionary? (And how ed   
   15 Feb 26 20:09:07   
   
   From: Paul@Houston.Texas   
      
   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 don't have T-Bird but using a Search Everything scan for "dict" shows   
   that the Dicts for SeaMonkey and Firefox are in their respective   
   profiles.  It seems that most programs have their own dicts.  My big   
   comp has over 100 of them.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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