Bug#1019541: lintian: New spelling corrections should be automatically checked against an american and a british english dictionary
Hi again,
Axel Beckert wrote:
> > $ grep -v ^# /usr/share/lintian/data/spelling/corrections | cut -d '|' -f 1 | while read word ; do grep "^$word\$" /usr/share/dict/american-english /usr/share/dict/british-english ; done
>
> Thanks for figuring out this nice little command! I though will try to
> optimize it to not call grep for each word but use something like:
>
> grep -Fw -f <(grep -v '^#' /usr/share/lintian/data/spelling/corrections | cut -d '|' -f 1) /usr/share/dict/american-english /usr/share/dict/british-english
In the end this probably will be implemented in Perl instead as there
are similar checks in t/scripts/spellintian.t already.
> I now wonder if we should use wamerican/wbritish or
> wamerican-insane/wbritish-insane for that. Maybe wamerican/wbritish is
> a good start and if we still get too many false posiives, we can
> extend it to use wamerican-insane/wbritish-insane. (The latter will
> probably also take longer. But then again with my optimized query
> above it also just takes less than a second on a 7 year old laptop.
> And it yields about 350 hits.)
Some more points on this question:
t/scripts/spellintian.t already has (only) two checks for seldom, but valid
words so that they don't get added again, namely "iff" and
"publically".
Both these words are not in /usr/share/dict/*-english but in
/usr/share/dict/*-english-insane.
Regards, Axel
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