1183089 - Spell Checker errors

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[RBedell]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150525141253

Steps to reproduce:

Using Thunderbird 37.7.0  (But this problem applies to Firefox as well.)

Less additional bells and whistles, improve on what already exists; things like the spell check. 

From the following spelling, guess what I am trying to spell - 'recepticals'.  Think you got it? Here is what Thunderbird thinks I am trying to spell 'sceptically'.  I am trying to spell a word that starts with 'r' not 's'.  I might be a bad speller but I am not that bad and Thunderbird isn't even close.  You probably got the word right; it is 'receptacle'.  Notice how close I am to getting the word spelled correctly while Thunderbird seems to be flying up a colon somewhere (and not the punctuation mark).  

If I where in the UK then I would really be 'sceptical' of the intelligence behind the spell check algorithm.  But I am in the US, so naturally I am more skeptical than sceptical.  Checking the options for spell check, I have English/Undited States selected.

Now lets add insult to injury: While Thunderbird suggests 'sceptically' for 'recepticals', it also thinks 'sceptical' is spelled wrong!  Which it wouldn't be if I were in the UK.

This issues has occurred with other words as well.  I usually get the correct spelling by copying the mis-spelled word and searching Google, which pops up the correct spelling 95% of the time.  The other 5% is due to me not even being close to the correct spelling.


Actual results:

Got the wrong spelling.


Expected results:

Gotten the correct spelling.

Comment 1

[Andre Klapper]

Which specific spell checking settings/preferences do you have in Thunderbird, and where exactly?