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Adding words to dictionary should include the upper/lower case versions and possessive/apostrophe versions of that word

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mccorgi
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I often have to add proper nouns to my personal dictionary just so that it doesn't get the red line. However, I find it annoying that I had to add my best friend's name "Luca" with an uppercase L and "luca" with a lowercase l as different words. And then I had to add the possessive forms "Luca's" and "luca's" as separate words as well. I type in lowercase when it's just casual online conversation.

How can I make it so that adding words to my dictionary isn't case-sensitive? And automatically accepts possessive forms (adding apostrophe and s at the end)? I know that some sites also use different unicode characters for apostrophes, so that's another thing. Or is there an extension that does this?

I want to keep spell check on, but I really hate seeing correctly-spelled words marked as misspelled, and it feels redundant to add the same words over and over to my dictionaries, whether it's in the browser or in the persdic.dat file.

I often have to add proper nouns to my personal dictionary just so that it doesn't get the red line. However, I find it annoying that I had to add my best friend's name "Luca" with an uppercase L and "luca" with a lowercase l as different words. And then I had to add the possessive forms "Luca's" and "luca's" as separate words as well. I type in lowercase when it's just casual online conversation. How can I make it so that adding words to my dictionary isn't case-sensitive? And automatically accepts possessive forms (adding apostrophe and s at the end)? I know that some sites also use different unicode characters for apostrophes, so that's another thing. Or is there an extension that does this? I want to keep spell check on, but I really hate seeing correctly-spelled words marked as misspelled, and it feels redundant to add the same words over and over to my dictionaries, whether it's in the browser or in the persdic.dat file.

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Dropa
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Beyond Firefox basic dictionary and spellchecker any other forms would be user customized and considering Firefox is nonprofit user based support thought would be a heavy lift to add word dictionary since pronouns and accent can vary from one person to another and ethnicity as well.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-use-firefox-spell-checker

cor-el
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That isn't possible, the personal dictionary can only take the exact word and also isn't offered in the as a possible suggestion. The regular dictionary comes with an affix file to specify the use cases of a word as you can see if you inspect such a file.