446007 - English dictionary error - false misspelling of "afterwards"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Dani Roisman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

Greetings, for the US English dictionary included with FireFox 3.0.1, the word "afterwards" is reported as a spelling error (with recommendation to replace with "afterwords").  The word "afterwards" is accepted in FF2, so it appears that this is a new dictionary error.

Reference: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/afterwards

I have done a brief search for where FireFox3 sources its dictionary without any good results.  I imagine this bug needs to be passed on to the dictionary creator, but I don't know who that is...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate to web page with text form
2. Type the word "afterwards"
3. Note the red underline
Actual Results:  
Report that "afterwards" is a spelling error

Expected Results:  
Expected that "afterwards" is received as a standard English word

Comment 1

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

We import from hunspell, so please report the bug there and put the hunspell report URL in the URL field of this bug.

Comment 2

[Dani Roisman]

Okay, I see it now.  The latest English (US) dictionary that I could find for hunspell seems to have "afterward" as valid, but not the variant "afterwards"

Reference: http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/en_US.zip

Thanks for the clarification as to dictionary source, I guess that should have been what I was looking for (obviously Mozilla did not create their own dictionaries for this purpose).

I guess my challenge now is to find the maintainer of that dictionary and ask for a revision.  Nothing useful in the README_en_US.txt file from that archive, don't know exactly where to go from here :(

The firefox bug can be resolved at this time, maybe one day the dictionary source can be corrected.