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Bug#431042: myspell-en-us: Please include "acknowledgement", not just "acknowledgment"



Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Josh Triplett wrote:
>> This dictionary only acknowledges "acknowledgment", and does not acknowledge
>> "acknowledgement".  Other dictionaries acknowledge both acknowledg{,e}ments.
> 
> http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&p=/gQPU.&search=acknowledgement says
> "acknowledgement" is mainly BE while "acknowledgment" is AE. If that's
> true, this is no bug in myspell-en-us since the scope of myspell-en-us
> is AE (otherwise you'd want -en-gb anyway for BE; and format your text
> accordingly).

In some cases, each variant of English considers one spelling correct and
others wrong.  In this case, as far as I can tell, each variant of English has
a "preferred" spelling but permits the other spelling and considers it
correct.  If you want myspell-en-us to only include the preferred variant,
feel free to tag this wontfix.  Otherwise, please consider adding the less
common but still valid spelling.

- Josh Triplett


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