299246 - English email dictionary not in English

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Vic Stevens]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.12
Build Identifier: Mozilla suite

 I am convinced spellcheck was drawn up in some foreign land, probably India. It has so many errors 
that I KNOW are errors- so I started keeping a list. Atlantean becomes Atlante an  (??). Folic is frolic, 
trine is triune, cafe is chafe, declawing is declaring. It has no concept of the possessive; public's is 
publics, anybody's is anybodys. It has no word for hematoma or demonize. Willy becomes, strangely, 
wilily. 
Ah ha, but Mahabarata is correctly corrected to Mahabharata. So, I would guess whoever drew it up is in 
Bangalore.  I hope you get a native English speaker to do the spellcheck dictionary.


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[zug_treno]

It seems Mozilla uses the OpenOffice.org dictionary (
http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/ ), see Core bug 240600. 

Comment 2

[zug_treno]

See also http://dictionaries.mozdev.org/ (bug 296123).

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

dictionaries are external to mozilla, so need to be addressed with that service.
see also http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries