620971 - Incorrect spell check for the word "Accoutrements".

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

[Caroline Strange]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

I am quite fond of the Mozilla Firefox Spell Checker, but it spelled the word "Accoutrements" incorrectly. It spells the word, "Accouterments". 



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. When writing anything on the internet, try to spell the word "accoutrements".
2. There will be a squiggly red line under the whole word. 
3. Right click for the "correct" spelling. 
Actual Results:  
It will "fix" the word to spell "accouterments". To my knowledge, this is incorrect. 

Expected Results:  
It should have spelled the word "accoutrements"

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

Neither are underlined as misspelled in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b9pre) Gecko/20110107 Firefox/4.0b9pre

MW seem to prefer your spelling http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accouterments whereas the NY Times style book suggests the other spelling http://topics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/trouble-with-ing/ (last item)

As both seem to be acceptable and neither is marked as misspelled setting this bug to works for me. The fix will be in the upcoming Firefox 4 release.