[libreoffice-users] Re: English language---was Re: Spell Check Dictionary

On 05/23/2014 03:24 PM, libreoffice-ml.mbourne@spamgourmet.com wrote:
> > On 05/22/2014 12:10 PM, Urmas wrote:
> > > "Kracked_P_P---webmaster":
> > >
> > > > There are 797866 lines in the .dic file with the top one the number
> > > > of words.
> > >
> > > Due to the author's error, it is shipped unmunched. In the proper form
> > > it contains 476898 entries, probably even less if some wordforms are
> > > missing. That is close to 70% misrepresentation.
>
> I don't know how spell-check dictionaries are usually compared but, to 
> me, it would make sense to count each form as a separate word. It may 
> be more efficient in use to compress the dictionary into a smaller 
> number of entries, but if there's a single entry encoding 4 forms of 
> the same root word, I'd count that as 4 words. Otherwise, a dictionary 
> containing 100000 words but only the root word of each would seem just 
> as good as a dictionary containing the same 100000 root words plus all 
> the variations encoded into each entry.
>
> Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> > What do you mean by the term "unmunched"?
>
> munch
> /mʌntʃ/
> verb (used with object)
> 1. to chew with steady or vigorous working of the jaws, often audibly.
> ...
> Related forms
> un·munched, adjective

YES, I heard of the term, but not used in the dictionary file.

> (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unmunched - I didn't swallow 
> the dictionary, munched or otherwise)
>
> > Never heard of that term in relation to a .dic file.
>
> Since a .dic file doesn't strike me as being particularly tasty, nor 
> useful after chewing, perhaps we should be glad that it is unmunched.
>
> (FWIW, neither LibreOffice nor SeaMonkey recognises 'unmunched'...)
The mean that mine is "munched", since it seem to work just fine for me.
With my 797K dictionary enabled, it has checked itself, just fine. So 
the words that are in it that is not in the default en_US works.

> Mark.


Here are the file sizes of several version of the en_US .ext file[s].

spell checking words, thesaurus, and hyphenation file size based on 
words - "unmunched".

  98,000 words - 5.5 MB
217,000 words - 5.8 MB
390,000 words - 6.2 MB
797,000 word - 6.8 MB file
3 million words - 11 +/- MB file - experimental and not published.

The file size is shown on a Linux Mint "Caja" file manager.
I am not the only one who produced a 5-7 MB .ext file for the spell 
checking, etc., system.



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