436526 - Spellchecker incorrectly flags "cancelled" as misspelled

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

[u71076]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.14 (Ubuntu-feisty)
Build Identifier: version 1.5.0.14ubu (20080505)

The spellchecker in Thunderbird flags the word "cancelled" as misspelled, which it is not.

Merriam Webster says that the word 'cancelled' may be spelled with either one or two L's (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cancelled). Both versions
are legitimate in US English.

In fact, the version with two L's appears to be the most commonly used (http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=cancelled&word2=canceled).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose a message containing the word "cancelled".
2. Run spell check.

Comment 2

[u71076]

I don't believe this bug is a duplicate of bug 241181 and I would request that it be reopened. Bug 241181 seems to be about the spelling of the word "cancelled" in the Mozilla UI and source code.

This bug is about a bug in the dictionary used by the spell checker. The "cancelled" spelling should be added to the dictionary independent of the outcome of bug 241181.

Comment 3

[skierpage]

Yup, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cancelled agrees "cancelled" is a legitimate inflected form.  Firefox 3.1 nightly also flags "cancelling" as misspelled.

I don't fully understand en-US.dic rules and flags despite reading "Hunspell features" doc on the web, but I believe
cancelled/U
canceller/M
(allowing the affixes uncancelled and canceller's just like uncanceled and canceler's ) should be added to en-US.dic

Comment 4

[skierpage]

Sorry, and add
cancelling

The patch (?) is
--- en-US.dic.org       2008-10-06 14:34:05.750000000 -0700
+++ en-US.dic   2008-10-16 15:44:22.546875000 -0700
@@ -20887,2 +20887,5 @@
 cancellation/MS
+cancelled/U
+canceller/M
+cancelling
 cancer/MS

Comment 5

[Matt Caywood]

Seems reasonable. Adding 

cancelled/U
canceller/M
cancelling

as part of bug 479334.

Comment 6

[[:Aleksej]]

There was also bug 423445 on the same issue.