Bug#2425: ispell thinks `formated' is correct
On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Michael E. Deisher writes ("Re: Bug#2425: ispell thinks `formated' is correct"):
> ...
> > Webster Definition for "formate"
> > for.mate \-.ma-t\ n : a salt or ester of formic acid
>
> OK, so it's a word (in American, and chemistry being what it is in
> English too) - but it's still a noun, so you can't have `formated'.
Well, probably more latin than American :-) ...
I'm pretty sure this is just a noun, though. The more common equivalent
is acetate, and the corresponding verb is acetylate.
On the other hand, no sensible chemist would use a spell-checker anyway -
after all, how many would recognise the likes of dinitrophenylhydrazine? :-)
Nikhil.
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