Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 64246
English (US) spell-checker thinks "acknowledgement" is spelled "acknowledgment"
Last modified: 2013-02-24 20:42:23 UTC
English spell-checker misspells "acknowledgement" as "acknowledgment". Open a new document, paste this string "acknowledgement", which is correctly spelled, and enable the Auto-Spellcheck feature. This word will be underlined in red and suggests an incorrect spelling as a replacement. Right-cling the word allows me to add it to standard.dic, but this should be fixed globally in OpenOffice... -- Kristian Hermansen
Dictionary.com defines: "acknowledgment" with an accepted variant of "acknowledgement". (en-US) From Oxford Dictionary: "acknowledgement" with an accepted variant of "acknowledgment". (en-UK) It would seem both variants are accepted but with some preference by locale. Testing with OOo2.0: Locale=en-US: "acknowledgement" is wrong, "acknowledgment" is accepted. Locale=en-UK: "acknowledgment" is wrong, "acknowledgement" is accepted. The current behaviour fits in with my quick internet check. Although both variants are probably accepted by any English locale, adding the word might not be a good idea IMHO. Regards, Andrew
This might relate to Issue 59960, concerning 'barbarisms'.
The word "acknowledgement" is most popular, so I would assume that should give it more weight, rather than "acknowledgment". See for yourself: http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=acknowledgement&word2=acknowledgment -- Kristian Hermansen
Reassigned to SBA.
SBA->Khermansen: The SpellChecker does not "think". It has a wrong entry... :-) The English (UK) SpellChecker "thinks" a better way. So this affects English (US) only. The "Google fight" results show that this typo is very common. I wonder, how much the OOo spell checker "contributed" to the figures (> 32,900,000 misspellings :-) This is not an enhancement, but a defect of low Prio. -> Summary and issue type adjusted. If you run into a word that is wrongly spelled in the dictionary, there is an easy workaround by creating a user-defined exception dictionary (whose purpose is to avoid "bad words" while having a "good" replacement proposal): - Tools-Options-Language settings-Writing aids - Beside the "User-defined dictionaries, click "New" - Name the dictionary - Check "exception" - Put the "wrong" word in the first box - Put the "right" word in the second box - Click "New" - OK -> Done Now, still, the correct word gets marked as wrong because it is not in the "positive" dictionary. So, yet, only the "wrong" proposal does not show anymore. So the correct word must be added to a user-defined "positive" dictionary. To do so... - Enable AutoSpellcheck - Put cursor in the underlined (correct) word - Context-Add-[choose a dictionary] -> Done. Note: Another way is to edit a user-defined dictionary directly via tools-Options-Language Settings-Writing Aids. SBA->Pavel: I could not figure out who is in charge to toy with the dictionary. Please proceed. Reassigned to Pjanik.
Daniel?
This is really something an English native speaker should care about...
Default American English dictionary supports only the preferred variant. The solution is to change the default language to British English in tools-Options-Language Settings-Writing Aid. Bug tracker of the American English dictionary used by OpenOffice.org: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=10079&atid=1014602
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