From: jdbeard@patriot.net   
      
   On 02/10/2013 10:42 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   > On 02/10/2013 06:37 AM, Jim Beard wrote:   
   >> On 02/10/2013 12:43 AM, Adam wrote:   
   >>> Sometimes I have no idea where spell checkers get their basic   
   >>> list from. I think some of them must be decades old. I   
   >>> appreciate their flagging things, but generally unless I've made   
   >>> a typo I trust my judgement more than theirs.   
   >>   
   >> When spell-checkers first came into general use, I thought they   
   >> were   
   >> great. I just kept putting words the spell-checker did not know   
   >> into the   
   >> list it used, and all was great. Until a new OS or a new   
   >> wordprocessing   
   >> program came along, and all that effort was in the used bit bin.   
   >>   
   >> After a couple of repetitions of that, I concluded spell-check   
   >> was not   
   >> worth the irritation and effort. I still am capable of invoking a   
   >> spell-checker if I think it warranted, but I cannot remember   
   >> when I last   
   >> did so.   
   >>   
   >> Cheers!   
   >>   
   >> jim b.   
   >>   
   >   
   >      Does anyone know how to do this, back up the work   
   > and add the modified dictionary to a new installation?   
   >   
   >      I have been thru the same hassle myself as my   
   > posts to several list use specialised jargon and for   
   > example medical terminology.  Adding to the dictionary   
   > seems to be broken.  There seems to be no way to   
   > permanently add words in proper spellings to the   
   > things.   
      
   Part of the problem is that there is no one-and-only   
   spell-checker or word list.  You have to find the list for each   
   spell-checker, and if the programmers have done "nifty" things to   
   make it work faster and/or better simply editing the file by hand   
   may not work.   
      
   With Linux, I suppose I could download the source code and see   
   what is actually going on, but I doubt it is worth the effort.  I   
   will simply accept criticism for misspellings now and then.   
      
   Compared to writers in the 17th through 19th centuries, my   
   spelling is quite good!  I'll defer the try for perfection to the   
   22d Century...   
      
   Cheers!   
      
   jim b.   
      
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