Re: [Aspell-user] considering word in master dictionary misspelled?

[Bill Crockett]

>> From: Karl Berry
>> Subject: [Aspell-user] considering word in master dictionary misspelled?
>> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:17:44 GMT
>>
>> The word "wold" (wolds, wold's) is in the Aspell master English
>> dictionary (aspell -d en dump master | aspell expand | grep wold).
>>
>> I would like to consider this word as a misspelling, i.e., as if it were
>> not in the master dictionary, so that
>> echo wold | aspell list
>> would output "wold" instead of being silent.  (In my world, "wold"
>> is always a misspelling of "would", not the Old English word for a wood.)
>>
>> Short of dumping all the words, removing the wold variants, and making a
>> new custom dictionary, is it possible?  For example, is there some way
>> in a personal dictionary, or some other file, to "override" (excise,
>> remove) an existing master dictionary entry?
>>
>> I looked in the manual and did various searches to no avail.  One person
>> with essentially the same question did end up making a new dictionary:
>> https://ryanveach.com/146/aspell-custom-dictionary/
>>
>> Any info appreciated.  --thanks, karl.
>
> I have the same problem.
>
> Using the British dictionary -d en_GB, the US spelling of "color" came up
> with a choice with a word called "colorr".  I have never heard of it.
> Looked it up on the Web and found nothing.  What does it mean and why is 
> in
> there?
>
> Using a hex editor, I could find no words in the dictionaries.  I was
> thinking of deleting that word to see if it would not show.
>
> My word processor, Firefox spell checker, Chrome spell checker all marked
> the word colorr as incorrect.
>
> We need some way to filter out, override, remove an unwanted word in the
> existing master dictionary entry.

From: "William H. Magill" To: "Bill Crockett"
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2016 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Aspell-user] considering word in master dictionary misspelled?


The probability is that you saved the word "colorr" in your personal 
dictionary in error.
I have done that myself many times.

William H. Magill

Thank you.  You are correct.  In the Aspell directory, I found "en.prepl" 
and "en.pws" had been created.  I did not notice them.  Looking inside was 
"colorr" and 20 other strange words.  I deleted both files and ran Aspell 
and found no reference to colorr.  But then "en.prepl" and "en.pws" were 
re-created.  Is this normal?  I don't want a personal dictionary.