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Bug#893961: marked as done (Ph.D. should not be marked as error in American English)

Your message dated Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:53:46 +0000
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and subject line Bug#1069123: Removed package(s) from experimental
has caused the Debian Bug report #893961,
regarding Ph.D. should not be marked as error in American English
to be marked as done.

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Package: libreoffice-writer
Version: 1:5.2.7-1+deb9u3

How to reproduce:

1) Open a fresh writer document.
2) Type in "Ph.D." (without quotation marks).
3) Mark the text as "English (USA)".

Observe that the abbreviation is underlined with a wave in red as if it were an error. Removing the periods makes the warning go away. This misleads the reader into thinking PhD is generally preferred over Ph.D. in the US English, which is generally NOT the case.

Reasons:
- OED lists this as the main dictionary entry, cf. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/ph.d.
- On a personal experience, a personally known professional editor who is also a native English speaker corrected my PhD to Ph.D. in a text explicitly marked as a US English text.

Since I'm not aware of which package is responsible (libreoffice, aspell, hunspell, or ispell), I am submitting a bug against libreoffice-writer. Feel free to solve the problem yourself or redirect appropriately.

Thanks in advance,
Vasili

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Version: 4:24.2.3~rc1-1+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package libreoffice has just been removed from the Debian archive
experimental we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1069123

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.

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