1198052 - Spelling dictionary uses "unfeasible" instead of "infeasible"

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

[david.staab]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0
Build ID: 20150812163655

Steps to reproduce:

I typed the word "infeasible".


Actual results:

The spell checker added a red squiggly line under my word, and upon right-clicking on the word it suggested "unfeasible".


Expected results:

It should accept "infeasible", which is an English word in both US and GB dictionaries. It should reject "unfeasible", which is not a word in either dictionary.

Comment 1

[Loic]

Both are correct: http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2012/07/variation

Comment 2

[david.staab]

Great citation, thanks! The absence of "infeasible" in the en-us dictionary (and probably in the en-gb dict too) still stands as a bug IMO.

Comment 3

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

This is not a Mozilla core bug. Please contact the person who maintains the dictionary:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/united-states-english-spellche/
and
https://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mozilla/extensions/spellcheck/locales/en-US/hunspell/README_en_US.txt
As far as I can tell, Mozilla does not maintain the content of the dictionaries.

For the British dictionary contact the respective maintainer, there are various:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/british-english-dictionary/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/british-english-dictionary-2/
(I can recommend the latter and the maintainer, Marco, is a really nice guy)

Comment 4

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(Comment 3 is incorrect, as discussed in bug 1183512 comment 2. Reopening & tagging that comment as obsolete.)

Comment 5

[Ekanan Ketunuti]

Attachment: Add infeasible, infeasibility, and unfeasibility to the en-US dictionary

Comment 6

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

(I still don't think, maintaining dictionaries is a job for core developers.)
In any case, "infeasibly" and "unfeasibly" should also be added.

Comment 7

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

The en-GB dictionary has:

defeasible
defeasibly
feasible/PY
feasibly/I
indefeasible/Y
infeasible
unfeasible/Z

As I said in bug 1144254 comment #9, I think it's a bad idea to use core developer time to maintain dictionaries. IMHO, like this, we will always deliver a substandard product.

Comment 8

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Comparing to the en-US add-on dictionary (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/united-states-english-spellche/) (all searches are for "feasibl"):

feasibleness/M
feasible/UI
feasibly/U
indefeasible
indefeasibly

Mozilla version:
feasible/U - patch adds /UI.
feasibly
indefeasible
indefeasibly

Comment 9

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Comment on attachment 8702197 [details] [diff] [review]
Add infeasible, infeasibility, and unfeasibility to the en-US dictionary

The adverb "feasibly" also needs to be modified, see previous comments.

Comment 10

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Also see bug 1137544, comment #33.

Comment 11

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Let's fix all the issues in bug 1235506.

Comment 12

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

As per bug 1238031 comment #12 this has been added to SCOWL and will make its way into the Mozilla dictionary upon refresh from SCOWL 2016-01.

Comment 13

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Will be added by bug 1240916 (or bug 1241494).

Comment 14

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Fixed by bug 1240916. The SCOWL 2016.01.19 data contains "infeasible".