400750 - spell checker offers to correct absorbAnce to absorbEnce

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

[Chris Chiasson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

absorbAnce is correct, not absorbEnce

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type "absorbance" into some field.
2. Note that the spell checker underlines it.
3. Right click the word to obtain suggestions.
Actual Results:  
The suggestions all use absorbEnce as a root word, which is probably wrong:
absorbEnce:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=absorbence

absorbAnce:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=absorbance


Expected Results:  
I would expect absorbAnce to not be spell-corrected at all. Also, I find it rather strange that even though there are several words that use absorbEnce as a root word, that absorbEnce itself is not in the list of suggestions.

Proposed fix:
make the following changes to the dictionary:
+absorbance
-absorbence

(I assume the suffixes are derived automatically, if not, they should probably be changed.)

Also, note that the words absorbancy and absorbency are both spelled correctly:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=absorbance

Comment 1

[Chris Chiasson]

fixing title... sorry

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Note: the trunk (future Firefox 3.0) uses a different spelling engine, Hunspell instead of MySpell, which has neither of the 2 versions.

Comment 3

[Matt Caywood]

absorbence is gone.

Adding 

absorbance/S
absorbancy/M

as part of bug 479334.