Closed Bug 1684025 Opened 5 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Please add "creatine" to the US English dictionary

Categories

(Core :: Spelling Checker: en-US Dictionary, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
Spelling Checker: en-US Dictionary
Version:
Firefox 84
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox84 --- affected
firefox85 --- affected
firefox86 --- affected

People

(Reporter: ddascalescu, Assigned: flod)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:84.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/84.0

Steps to reproduce:

The word "creatine" is underlined as a typo.

Not sure if I should add this to a master ticket for adding words to the built-in English dictionary (1498084 maybe?)

Expected results:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatine

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Component: Untriaged → Spelling checker
Product: Firefox → Core

Also, "psychomotor", "affective", "biomedicine".

Looks like other programs using hunspell don't have creatine either.
Might be good to get the dictionary in hunspell updated.

Severity: -- → S3
Priority: -- → P3

Reproduced on the latest versions of Firefox Nightly 86.0a1 (2021-01-08), beta 85.0b6 and release 84.0.2. Reproducible on FF 70.0 as well.

Updating the flags and setting a component for this issue in order to get the dev team involved.
If you feel it's an incorrect one please feel free to change it to a more appropriate one.

Severity: S3 → S4
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
status-firefox84: --- → affected
status-firefox85: --- → affected
status-firefox86: --- → affected
Ever confirmed: true

(In reply to Olli Pettay [:smaug][bugs@pettay.fi] from comment #3)

Looks like other programs using hunspell don't have creatine either.

Expanding a bit, as I've seen variations of these comments in other bugs from different folks.

Hunspell is the technology, this problem is caused by a word missing in our own en-US dictionary. This dictionary uses Hunspell (as in the format/technology), and is based on a subset of the SCOWL dataset (although we add almost 7k words to it).
There is no Hunspell source of truth when it comes to dictionaries. Libreoffice seems to be using a subset of SCOWL as well, but there's no way to tell if it's the same (unlikely, given the added words).

I'm working on updating the existing dictionary to the latest version of SCOWL, then I'll start looking into these bugs (in case SCOWL didn't include these words yet).

Words to add/check:

  • affective
  • biomedicine (biomedical)
  • creatine
  • psychomotor
Assignee: nobody → francesco.lodolo

Updates landed in https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/bbefbe4a2631

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Component: Spelling checker → Spelling Checker: en-US Dictionary
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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