450300 - The word "supercede" is not in the default spell-check dictionary.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Spelling checker, defect)

Description

[Jordan Tucker]

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

The word "supercede" is not in the default spell-check dictionary. A dotted, red line appears under the word when present in an input field (input type=text, textarea).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to a web page that has an input field
2. Type the word "supercede" followed by a space
Actual Results:  
A dotted, red line appears under the word.

Expected Results:  
The default spell-check dictionary should contain the word "supercede" and a dotted, red line should not appear under the word.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

http://www.bartleby.com/68/47/5847.html

"/Supersede/ is the overwhelming preference of Edited English, although /supercede/ does occur in print."

Comment 2

[era+mozilla]

Shouldn't this be marked as invalid?

Comment 3

[bolch]

Hear,Hear -- let's not be too twee about this. "Supersede" is right, "supercede" is wrong. 

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