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Ketju on arkistoitu. Esitä kysymys, jos tarvitset apua.

Need better dictionary (US-America). Too many words simply not there. How to replace?

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There are a number of words that aren't in the dictionary, including common acronyms, and adding them becomes a royal pain after awhile.

I'm not going to get into examples; there ought to be many here who have seen this before.

--->I'm willing to get down and dirty and add words programmatically from a known dictionary word list, but I don't know either the format or where it's installed<---

But there really seems to be no where online that I can find where someone else has done all this already.

And all the addons that I can find are about changing dictionaries by locale, or getting dictionary definitions.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

There are a number of words that aren't in the dictionary, including common acronyms, and adding them becomes a royal pain after awhile. I'm not going to get into examples; there ought to be many here who have seen this before. --->I'm willing to get down and dirty and add words programmatically from a known dictionary word list, but I don't know either the format or where it's installed<--- But there really seems to be no where online that I can find where someone else has done all this already. And all the addons that I can find are about changing dictionaries by locale, or getting dictionary definitions. Any ideas? Thanks!

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hi, you can put custom words into the persdict.dat file in your profile folder (one per line).

Profiles - Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data

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hi, you can put custom words into the persdict.dat file in your profile folder (one per line).

Profiles - Where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other user data

tgm1024
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Perfect! Thanks.

All I need to do is write a crafty program (likely Java) to siphon through the very large word lists out there, check against the existing US-en dic file, and enter it if it doesn't exist.

I wonder if things will slow down some? LOL...