Sunday, February 5, 2012

Lexicographers add words to the dictionary when usage makes them part of common speach, right?

So when are the people who edit the Yahoo dictionary going to add "fundie" and "athey" to spell checker and acknowledge that they are perfectly good words?Lexicographers add words to the dictionary when usage makes them part of common speach, right?
Right after they add pastafarian.
Hmmm, I'd never seen "athey" before, have seen (and used) "fundie". But I wouldn't hold your breath. They don't even recognize "proven" and that is in my not-all-that-recent Merriam-Webster dictionary. Not to mention a lot of other words that it cannot seem to comprehend. I have been a proofreader, among other jobs, and this is the worst proofread program I have ever seen.Lexicographers add words to the dictionary when usage makes them part of common speach, right?
As soon as someone with root access types



# pico /usr/local/share/dict/words



Given that you've got root access on your own machine, you could always edit your own words file (which is used by the `spell` command and your browser's own built-in spelling checker).
Yahoo is fraktarded. I don't expect much from them anymore.Lexicographers add words to the dictionary when usage makes them part of common speach, right?
my spelling is so bad yahoo thinks i'm trying to spell th F word and offers it as a correction option sometimes.... now that's just funny to me.
Spell checker is riddled with errors anyway.
Probably won't happen, but who cares? You can still use those words, we will understand, and YA doesn't delete them.

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