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dhave

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

From: Outside the matrix.

Registered: 2005-05-15

Posts: 1,112

There's "a rat" in "separate" ...

From the latest ARCH upgrade to openoffice-base:

The en_US spellchecker is no longer included. A seperate pkg is now
available. Use "pacman -S openoffice-spell-en" to install it.

Maybe that spellchecker should be put back in!

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ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: There's "a rat" in "separate" ...

LOL... yeah, I think that's one of the most often misspelled words on the Internet. 

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shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: There's "a rat" in "separate" ...

heh, at least, I don't think that mistake should be made by us french ppl
Because the french word is close : "séparé" and there isn't any confusion possible from the spelling that it's an "a" in french.

English is just weird

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skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: There's "a rat" in "separate" ...

We Americans are funny critters that have an innate need to remove the logic out of things. It historically goes something like this:

"Well, the British invented this stupid system, and we're not British anymore, so we'll make it even stoopider" (See the Imperial Measurement System: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_measurement).

Of course the 'proper' form is spell-checker because it's an abbreviation.

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: There's "a rat" in "separate" ...

We Americans are funny critters that have an innate need to remove the logic out of things. It historically goes something like this:

"Well, the British invented this stupid system, and we're not British anymore, so we'll make it even stoopider" (See the Imperial Measurement System: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_measurement).

Kinda like the Koreans and the Chinese, except that Hangul is actually an improvement on the Chinese system...

dhave

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

From: Outside the matrix.

Registered: 2005-05-15

Posts: 1,112

Re: There's "a rat" in "separate" ...

English is just weird

That's true. For example, have you seen the way that you can spell "fish" this way: ghoti ?

     gh as in "laugh"
     o as in "women"
     ti as in "nation"

I think our confusing spelling has to do with the combination of germanic and romance word stocks, plus that fact that our spelling often reflects pronunciation at the time of the early days of printing.

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shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: There's "a rat" in "separate" ...

English is just weird

That's true. For example, have you seen the way that you can spell "fish" this way: ghoti ?

     gh as in "laugh"
     o as in "women"
     ti as in "nation"

I think our confusing spelling has to do with the combination of germanic and romance word stocks, plus that fact that our spelling often reflects pronunciation at the time of the early days of printing.

Funny
But I didn't know the o in "women" was the same as i in "fish". I would probably pronounce both incorrectly

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billy

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From: Slovenia

Registered: 2006-09-13

Posts: 164

Re: There's "a rat" in "separate" ...

Bugtracker should also need a spellchecker. look at the tasks name:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7331

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: There's "a rat" in "separate" ...

Fixed in CVS.