Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to select extension dictionary for spellchecking

So, would it be better to use the Oxford English or the British English 
form of spelling?  Here in the USA, if we do not use "proper American 
spelling" our papers are rejected for sloppiness.  I wrote "colour" once 
instead of "color" and the professor was upset with me.  My 20 pound 
[weight] dictionary had the English spelling first, so I used it.  I did 
not know better in those days before computer were smaller than a normal 
car or truck.

So do we use en_GB or en_GB-oed as the default one for "Queen and 
Country"?  I think use Americans sometimes spell our words differently 
so we can be different after we broke away from British rule.

LibreOffice's Tools>Language Settings>Languages>Localized ---> has 14 
different listing for English.  More languages than there are versions I 
can find to install or are in the install .deb files.

http://libreoffice-na.us/English/add-on-dictionaries-large-list/US_English_April-19-2011-dic-file.oxt
is the link to one that has the most up-to-date .dic file I could find.  
I found the file and updated the original .oxt file with it.  Maybe 
someone could do that for en_GB-oed to my it better and more up-to-date 
than from a 2005 .dic file [which the one linked to before from OOo's 
site has].

Actually 500 years ago, most people could not read.  So knowing how to 
spell was not important.

Actually look at the number of different France/French language versions 
- 4 of them - plus a few localized ones that no longer are called French 
since they are so different.

20+ Spanish dictionaries are in the list I have at: 
http://libreoffice-na.us/English/extensions.html#dict .  All localized 
to a country which uses it.


On 08/04/2011 05:55 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> I think 500 years ago there wasn't even an agreed standard way of spelling any
> word.  Shakespeare wrote his own name with many different spellings during his
> life.  I did think that ise had been "THE English way" for a LOT longer tho!
> lol.  Languages have to evolve and adapt to changing requirements.
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions<webmaster@krackedpress.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Sent: Thu, 4 August, 2011 20:55:36
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: how to select extension dictionary for
> spellchecking
>
>
> So you are saying that the British English use of -ise instead of -ize is a new
> thing that is just a new way of spelling words that have been around, a new
> localized [or is it localised] way?
>
> I use American English which spells colour as color.  But this is the first time
> I have heard of the -ise/-ize issue.  Well they always say language involves.
> Take English in Britain about 500 years ago.  The same words, but different
> spellings.
>
> So should I dump en_GB in favor en_GB-oed version?
> Should I not include en_CA or en_GB[oed] in my dictionary list in the USA?
> I know that one .oxt dictionary add-on that includes many different English
> files.
> Should people not use that type?
>
> en_GB-oed .dic file has 46,113 words in its word list.  The Wiki page shows
> "analyse" in en_GB-oed and "analyze" in en_US.  Well in the oed .dic file I
> cannot find "analyse".  Below is the word list where that word should be
> located, but it is not.
> --------------------
> ample/PT
> amplification/M
> anarchy/3Ww1SM
> anastigmatic
> Andaman/M
> aneroid
> Anglican/MS
> --------------------
>
> I found the word
>      analyse in the en_GB .dic file dated 2010-02-15
>      analyze in the en_CA .dic file dated 2010-02-15
>      but neither spelling in the en_GB-eod version dated 2005-06-13.
> So the "eod" version has not kept up with what the Wiki page link shows for
> Oxford English.
>
> Of course, you could always edit a word list and keep only the spellings that
> Oxford English excepts.  As I understand, the complete Oxford dictionary
> contains 20 volumes/books to hold all the words and definitions.  I have a word
> list of over 200,000 words, but would you want to have a word processor spell
> checker dictionary with all those words, or only the ones you really want to
> use?  The more words in the list, the more chances that your misspelled words
> are correct spelling for a different unwanted word.  There is not good way
> around it, except edit your word list to remove the words that are not spelled
> correctly for your localized version of the language.
>
>
> On 08/04/2011 10:18 AM, ron.vandenbranden wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks for your thoughts.
> >
> > On Thursday 4 August 2011 15:12:21, krackedpress [via Document
> > Foundation Mail Archive] wrote:
> > > Could someone tell me what it the difference between the standard en_GB
> > > and the OED [Oxford English] version?
> > Maybe I should clarify my problem: I regularly have to edit articles
> > for publication in a journal that conforms to Oxford Spelling
> > (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling>), which differs on some
> > points from regular BE spelling, e.g.: only forms in -ize are allowed.
> > In order to facilitate spell checking, I installed the OED extension
> > from<http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/node/1890>. Though the
> > extension is successfully installed (and listed by the Extension
> > Manager), there's apparently no way to select this dictionary for
> > spellchecking with the LibreOffice (3.4.2) interface, so I have
> > resorted to manually overwriting an installed dictionary with the OED
> > version.
> >
> > So, it's really a matter of being able to che
> > ck the spelling with a
> > specific English locale, rather than facing a flawed en_GB dictionary.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Ron
> >
> >
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