[Aspell-user] considering word in master dictionary misspelled?

[Bill Crockett]

From: Karl Berry
Subject: [Aspell-user] considering word in master dictionary misspelled?
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:17:44 GMT
The word "wold" (wolds, wold's) is in the Aspell master English
dictionary (aspell -d en dump master | aspell expand | grep wold).
I would like to consider this word as a misspelling, i.e., as if it were
not in the master dictionary, so that
echo wold | aspell list
would output "wold" instead of being silent. (In my world, "wold"
is always a misspelling of "would", not the Old English word for a wood.)
Short of dumping all the words, removing the wold variants, and making a
new custom dictionary, is it possible? For example, is there some way
in a personal dictionary, or some other file, to "override" (excise,
remove) an existing master dictionary entry?
I looked in the manual and did various searches to no avail. One person
https://ryanveach.com/146/aspell-custom-dictionary/
Any info appreciated. --thanks, karl.

I have the same problem.

Using the British dictionary -d en_GB, the US spelling of "color" came up
with a choice with a word called "colorr". I have never heard of it.
Looked it up on the Web and found nothing. What does it mean and why is in
there?

Using a hex editor, I could find no words in the dictionaries. I was
thinking of deleting that word to see if it would not show.

My word processor, Firefox spell checker, Chrome spell checker all marked
the word colorr as incorrect.

We need some way to filter out, override, remove an unwanted word in the
existing master dictionary entry.

[Bill Crockett]

Post by Bill Crockett

From: Karl Berry
Subject: [Aspell-user] considering word in master dictionary misspelled?
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:17:44 GMT
The word "wold" (wolds, wold's) is in the Aspell master English
dictionary (aspell -d en dump master | aspell expand | grep wold).
I would like to consider this word as a misspelling, i.e., as if it were
not in the master dictionary, so that
echo wold | aspell list
would output "wold" instead of being silent. (In my world, "wold"
is always a misspelling of "would", not the Old English word for a wood.)
Short of dumping all the words, removing the wold variants, and making a
new custom dictionary, is it possible? For example, is there some way
in a personal dictionary, or some other file, to "override" (excise,
remove) an existing master dictionary entry?
I looked in the manual and did various searches to no avail. One person
https://ryanveach.com/146/aspell-custom-dictionary/
Any info appreciated. --thanks, karl.

I have the same problem.
Using the British dictionary -d en_GB, the US spelling of "color" came up
with a choice with a word called "colorr". I have never heard of it.
Looked it up on the Web and found nothing. What does it mean and why is in
there?
Using a hex editor, I could find no words in the dictionaries. I was
thinking of deleting that word to see if it would not show.
My word processor, Firefox spell checker, Chrome spell checker all marked
the word colorr as incorrect.
We need some way to filter out, override, remove an unwanted word in the
existing master dictionary entry.

From: "William H. Magill" To: "Bill Crockett"
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Aspell-user] considering word in master dictionary misspelled?


The probability is that you saved the word "colorr" in your personal
dictionary in error.
I have done that myself many times.

William H. Magill

Thank you. You are correct. In the Aspell directory, I found "en.prepl"
and "en.pws" had been created. I did not notice them. Looking inside was
"colorr" and 20 other strange words. I deleted both files and ran Aspell
and found no reference to colorr. But then "en.prepl" and "en.pws" were
re-created. Is this normal? I don't want a personal dictionary.