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    From Davey@21:1/5 to All on Fri Oct 14 08:45:43 2022
    I just typed 'Aldebugrh' instead of 'Aldeburgh'. The TB spellcheck
    correctly flagged it up, but then only suggested 'Aldebaran' as an
    alternative. Although I like Aldeburgh, I don't think it has
    the brilliance of Aldebaran, But when I corrected my mistake, it
    already knew about 'Aldeburgh', but it didn't suggest it. Weird.
    This is on Claws-mail, and it also does not recognise 'Aldeburgh'.
    Strange.

    --
    Davey.

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  • From Pancho@21:1/5 to Davey on Sat Oct 15 08:23:49 2022
    On 14/10/2022 08:45, Davey wrote:
    I just typed 'Aldebugrh' instead of 'Aldeburgh'. The TB spellcheck
    correctly flagged it up, but then only suggested 'Aldebaran' as an alternative. Although I like Aldeburgh, I don't think it has
    the brilliance of Aldebaran, But when I corrected my mistake, it
    already knew about 'Aldeburgh', but it didn't suggest it. Weird.
    This is on Claws-mail, and it also does not recognise 'Aldeburgh'.
    Strange.



    Google gives 11,000,000 hits for Aldebaran, but only 2,700,000 for
    Aldeburgh. I'd never heard of Aldeburgh, despite living close enough to
    have cycled to Dunwich and Clacton in the last few months.

    So perhaps the spell checker is giving the result it thinks most people
    would be interested in, result star quality so to speak.

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  • From Davey@21:1/5 to Pancho on Sat Oct 15 09:06:16 2022
    On Sat, 15 Oct 2022 08:23:49 +0100
    Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me> wrote:

    On 14/10/2022 08:45, Davey wrote:
    I just typed 'Aldebugrh' instead of 'Aldeburgh'. The TB spellcheck correctly flagged it up, but then only suggested 'Aldebaran' as an alternative. Although I like Aldeburgh, I don't think it has
    the brilliance of Aldebaran, But when I corrected my mistake, it
    already knew about 'Aldeburgh', but it didn't suggest it. Weird.
    This is on Claws-mail, and it also does not recognise 'Aldeburgh'.
    Strange.



    Google gives 11,000,000 hits for Aldebaran, but only 2,700,000 for
    Aldeburgh. I'd never heard of Aldeburgh, despite living close enough
    to have cycled to Dunwich and Clacton in the last few months.

    So perhaps the spell checker is giving the result it thinks most
    people would be interested in, result star quality so to speak.


    Aldeburgh is best known as the home of the composer Benjamin Britten,
    and was also the home of the author Laurens van der Post, where he did
    much of his writing. There were, of course, others, such as Elizabeth
    Garrett Anderson. Nearby Snape is the host venue for the annual
    Aldeburgh Festival.

    And equally importantly, it is where my parents retired to.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldeburgh#History

    --
    Davey.

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  • From Pancho@21:1/5 to Andy Burns on Sat Oct 15 09:56:07 2022
    On 15/10/2022 09:32, Andy Burns wrote:
    Pancho wrote:

    Google gives 11,000,000 hits for Aldebaran, but only 2,700,000 for
    Aldeburgh. I'd never heard of Aldeburgh, despite living close enough
    to have cycled to Dunwich and Clacton in the last few months.

    So perhaps the spell checker is giving the result it thinks most
    people would be interested in, result star quality so to speak.

    I doubt a spell-checker consults a search engine for popularity of alternative spellings, more likely to suggest spellings with the shorter "distance" between them

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance>


    Yeahbut...

    Levenshtein_distance( Aldebugrh, Aldeburgh) = 2
    Levenshtein_distance( Aldebugrh, Aldebaran) = 4

    <https://planetcalc.com/1721/>

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to Pancho on Sat Oct 15 09:32:08 2022
    Pancho wrote:

    Google gives 11,000,000 hits for Aldebaran, but only 2,700,000 for Aldeburgh. I'd never heard of Aldeburgh, despite living close enough to have cycled to Dunwich and Clacton in the last few months.

    So perhaps the spell checker is giving the result it thinks most people would be
    interested in, result star quality so to speak.

    I doubt a spell-checker consults a search engine for popularity of alternative spellings, more likely to suggest spellings with the shorter "distance" between them

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance>

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  • From Daniel James@21:1/5 to Davey on Sun Oct 23 16:39:50 2022
    In article <tib437$21nvh$1@dont-email.me>, Davey wrote:
    I just typed 'Aldebugrh' instead of 'Aldeburgh'. The TB spellcheck
    correctly flagged it up, but then only suggested 'Aldebaran' as an alternative.

    What gets suggested will depend on the spellchecker software (TB uses
    MySpell) and the dictionary. I ran 'Aldebugrh' through GNU ASpell --
    which is not the same thing, of course -- and it suggested:

    Aldebaran
    Elderberry
    Albacore
    Ultrahigh
    Albacores

    I'd have hoped that more than one of those would also be in MySpell's dictionary, but perhaps not.

    But when I corrected my mistake, it already knew about 'Aldeburgh',
    but it didn't suggest it. Weird.

    I suspect 'Aldeburgh' is known because you've added it in the past. The 'suggestion' function of the spellchecker may only work using the
    built-in dictionary.

    This is on Claws-mail, and it also does not recognise 'Aldeburgh'.

    You can't expect every small town in Suffolk to appear in a
    spellchecker dictionary -- even a UK English dictionary.

    --
    Cheers,
    Daniel.

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