aspell's British English dictionary has spelling mistakes.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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aspell-en (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
aspell's British English dictionary is perturbed by my British English.
$ echo offensive/
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.50.5)
& offensive 6 0: offencive, offensives, offensively, inoffensive,
unoffensive, offence
& advisor 9 0: adviser, advise, ad visor, ad-visor, advisory, advisee,
divisor, advice, advisor's
& panellist 8 0: panelist, panel list, panel-list, panellists, panelists,
panelised, panelist's, panels
& practice 6 0: practise, practiser, proactive, practised, practises, Prentice
$ locale
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$ dpkg -l | grep aspell
ii aspell 0.50.5-5 GNU Aspell spell-checker
ii aspell-bin 0.50.5-5 GNU Aspell standalone spell-check utilities
ii aspell-en 0.51-1-1 English dictionary for GNU Aspell
ii libaspell15 0.50.5-5 The GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime toolkit
$
Here's the Company Oxford English Dictionary's opinion.
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Changed in aspell-en: | |
assignee: | nobody → dsilvers |
Changed in aspell-en: | |
assignee: | dsilvers → nobody |
Changed in aspell-en (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
There's more:
$ echo proven/racquet | tr / \\012 | aspell pipe
@(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.50.5)
& proven 29 0: pr oven, pr-oven, prov en, prov-en, prove, proving, prover,
proved, proves, profane, prone, proverb, riven, Pren, Provence, pron, prov,
provenly, prevent, driven, privet, progeny, protean, protein, provers, Provo,
Raven, preen, raven
& racquet 19 0: racket, rackety, racquet's, Raquel, acquit, racked, ragout,
rocket, parquet, react, requite, acute, Jacquetta, Jacquette, racker, rackets,
request, Raquela, ratchet
$ locale "en_GB" "en_GB" ON="en_ GB"
LANG=en_GB
LC_CTYPE="en_GB"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB"
LC_TIME="en_GB"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB"
LC_PAPER="en_GB"
LC_NAME="en_GB"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB"
LC_TELEPHONE=
LC_MEASUREMENT=
LC_IDENTIFICATI
LC_ALL=
$ dpkg -l | grep aspell
ii aspell 0.50.5-5 GNU Aspell spell-checker
ii aspell-bin 0.50.5-5 GNU Aspell standalone spell-check utilities
ii aspell-en 0.51-1-1 English dictionary for GNU Aspell
ii libaspell15 0.50.5-5 The GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime toolkit