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4. Finding words
Example of how to find words:
Just paste text in OpenOffice or Thunderbird (I usually use TB) and see if any of it appear as typos.
It is also a good practice to press the "Forward" button on TB in technical Mailing Lists.
For example, a text that had "berk" reported it as a typo.
So, I went to the Oxford dictionaries on-line and wrote there the word and then clicked to show all the examples.
Then I selected the whole text and pasted it into TB and the results were:
- berk AND berks were missing in en_GB.
So, I had Proofing Tool GUI running and the first thing I did was to:
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Press CTR+F (Find) to search if it exists. I searched for singular since, if there was a plural in the word list, it would appear since it is singular+"s";
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The words singular+plural weren't there, so I pressed CTR+A (add) and typed:
- berk/S This generated:
- berk
- berks
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Then I pressed RETURN or OKAY
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I pressed SAVE (CTR+S) to save the wordlist.
This is the regular procedure to adding words:
- Spot typos in TB/AOO
- Search for the words on on-line dictionaries
- Search for the words in PTG (first with singular forms, if plural has an S at the end)
- Add the words and derivates
- Save the wordlist
- Search for similar words in Oxford suggestions and go back to step 1)
Adding names:
- Search for names in Oxford or Wikipedia
- Press CTR+F on Firefox and search for the name PLUS 's to check if it has possessive form (remember to search in all Wikipedia examples until you find an example of a possessive form)
- In case the name ends with an S try to find the possessive with just ' (without 's)
- In case it is found search first in PTG for the name without possessive
- Add the name to PTG and save the wordlist