410970 - spell checker doesn't like most variations of anthropomorphize , euthanize, ...

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008010508 Minefield/3.0b3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008010508 Minefield/3.0b3pre ID:2008010508

In FF3 trunk, the en-US spell checker doesn't accept anthropomorphize, anthropomorphizes, anthropomorphized; it only accepts anthropomorphizing.

Indeed, Minefield/dictionaries/en-US.dic contains only
  anthropomorphizing

Contrast with variations of "energize", all of which are OK.  The dictionary has
  energize/ZGDRS

Some other "ize" verbs in the dictionary also seem incorrect, see "Additional Information"


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Use Minefield en-US.
2.  In a textarea, enter anthropomorphize anthropomorphizing anthropomorphizes anthropomorphized euthanized euthanizing fluidize fluidizes 


Actual Results:  
The spell checker flags all of them but "anthropomorphizing"

Expected Results:  
All those variations of "anthropomorphize" should work, see http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/anthropomorphize

I can't find simple documentation for the hunspell flags in en-US.dic, http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=29374&group_id=143754 is hardcore.  GDS ZDGRS DSBG?

You can search en-US.dic for "ize" and find other verbs lacking flags to support inflections, e.g. "euthanize" and "fluidize".  Also "fertilize" and "initializes"  seem set up wrong.

Comment 1

[Matt Caywood]

Fixing these as part of Bug 479334.

See the file en-US.aff for the affix information that allows you to interpret the codes. 

DSG = suffixes -d, -s, -ing (removing e)