On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 02:52:59PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Magnus" == Magnus Danielson <cfmd@swipnet.se> writes:
>
> Magnus> From: Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@beer.com> Subject: Re:
> Magnus> concensus on removing TeX and Emacs from standard Date:
> Magnus> Fri, 31 Dec 1999 20:50:46 +0100
>
> >> While we are cutting half of Std now, why do we have 3 english
> >> dictionaries in Std ? (iamerican, ibritish and wenglish).
> >> Couldnt they be merged somehow ?
>
> Magnus> American English differ too much from British English,
> Magnus> there is not propper way of spelling things like
> Magnus> meter/metre etc.
>
> In that case, why are there two packages for American english:
>
> iamerican and wenglish
>
> but only one package for non British English:
>
> ibritish
>
> ?
>
> This means, there is no British word list to use for the 'L'ookup
> command within ispell (unless something has changed since slink).
>
> For instance, with ispell and ibritish installed (no other
> dictionaries):
>
> - ispell lookup option doesn't work.
>
> - ispell accepts both authorize and authorise as correct spelling. I
> thought authorize was American spelling...
>
Irritating isn't it? ibritish is nothing more than iamerican with some
Real English words tacked on. Very annoying when someone like me (a
Canadian) has to spell check a formal essay, and I can't even get an
accurate spell checker.
BTW, do you know of a good word list of Real and only Real English I can
get? I still need that spell checker.
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