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Words added to dictionary should include possessive form
Ever since I started with Word 6.0 I have been annoyed that spell-check does
NOT automatically accept the possessive form of a word added to the dictionary, especially for proper nouns. For instance, add the name Mischa to the dictionary. Spell-check will flag Mischa's. The same problem arises when you add a noun and try to use the plural form. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Words added to dictionary should include possessive form
I agree that it would be handy if Word would automatically add plurals,
possessives, other tenses, etc., but how is Word supposed to know that a word is a noun (proper or otherwise) or a verb or whatever? If you added, say, Michael (not necessary, of course, since it's already in the lexicon), what would keep Word from excepting Michaeled (by analogy with Traveled)? The lexicon includes Roger and even accepted "roger" but doesn't contain "rogered," which, if it were being creative, it might thing should be "rogerred," by analogy with "referred." I think you can see that, without syntactic information, this type of "intelligence" is not possible. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Deej" wrote in message ... Ever since I started with Word 6.0 I have been annoyed that spell-check does NOT automatically accept the possessive form of a word added to the dictionary, especially for proper nouns. For instance, add the name Mischa to the dictionary. Spell-check will flag Mischa's. The same problem arises when you add a noun and try to use the plural form. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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Words added to dictionary should include possessive form
Perhaps that wasn't so much a suggestion as a colorless green idea, sleeping
furiously. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I agree that it would be handy if Word would automatically add plurals, possessives, other tenses, etc., but how is Word supposed to know that a word is a noun (proper or otherwise) or a verb or whatever? If you added, say, Michael (not necessary, of course, since it's already in the lexicon), what would keep Word from excepting Michaeled (by analogy with Traveled)? The lexicon includes Roger and even accepted "roger" but doesn't contain "rogered," which, if it were being creative, it might thing should be "rogerred," by analogy with "referred." I think you can see that, without syntactic information, this type of "intelligence" is not possible. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Deej" wrote in message ... Ever since I started with Word 6.0 I have been annoyed that spell-check does NOT automatically accept the possessive form of a word added to the dictionary, especially for proper nouns. For instance, add the name Mischa to the dictionary. Spell-check will flag Mischa's. The same problem arises when you add a noun and try to use the plural form. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...ocmanagemen t |
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