On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Jörg Knobloch <jo...@jorgk.com> wrote:
> Thirdly, the add-on dictionary contains 13% more words than the Mozilla
> maintained dictionary, and I think in dictionaries, bigger is better.
This is not always true for spelling correction, because there may be
common words that can be misspelled the same as uncommon words. E.g.,
the word "fro" is perfectly good English ("to and fro"), but in real
user input it's probably a misspelling of "for", and it's not obvious
that it's good to have in a spellchecking dictionary. Likewise,
uncommon variant spellings are best omitted. Uncommon words that are
not likely to be misspellings of any more common words are good to
have.
I don't have any strong feelings about the main point of your post.
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