524672 - Spell checker corrects "etc" to "etc." infinitely

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 318040

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[daniel_sowsbery]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

When "etc" appears it is corrected to "etc." (i.e. a period is attached), however Firefox does not then recognize "etc." as corrected; it ignores the period.  Therefore whenever "etc" appears it is always marked as incorrectly spelled (whether followed by a period or not) and "etc." always suggested.  The result is a period always being added ("etc.....") if "etc." is selected from the spell-checker's suggestions.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Enable spell-checking

2.  Type "etc"

3.  Right/command click the underlined "etc"

4.  Select "etc." from the suggested correct spellings

5.  "etc." is still underlined.  Selecting "etc." again from the spell-checker menu results in "etc.." with the spelling still marked a s incorrect.
Actual Results:  
"etc.." with a period following "etc" for every time the word is corrected.

Expected Results:  
For "etc" to be corrected to "etc.", but then "etc." to be recognised as correct.

Recognise "etc." as a whole word, rather than just looking for "etc" and adding a period.

Comment 1

[Will Pittenger]

I tried to reproduce this.  But 3.5.3 (on Vista 64-bit SP2) doesn't mark "etc" or "etc." as misspelled.  Sorry.

Comment 2

[daniel_sowsbery]

I am using the British English Dictionary (1.19) Add-on.  (Should have mentioned that before, sorry.)

Comment 3

[Will Pittenger]

I use the default en-US dictionary.

Comment 4

[John P Baker]

etc..