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With conventional spell checkers, words are validated against one or several dictionaries.
Dictionaries are lists of words that are deemed correctly spelled. If the words being spell checked are
also in one of the dictionaries,
they are deemed correctly spelled. Otherwise, they are not. If not,
spell checkers typically offer users a number of closely matching, but
correctly spelled, words from the dictionaries.
Word processors and email spell checkers have typically at least two
dictionaries: a language dictionary (also called system dictionary) and
a user dictionary (also called personal dictionary). The language dictionary can't be edited by the
end-user, but
the user dictionary is personal and can be edited by its
owner (as determined by that person's computer login name).
The location of the words being spell checked within the document,
for example within a Microsoft Word letter, is irrelevant to their spelling status. This
is fundamentally different from words in maps (data frames) where, for
example, the spelling of a city name should only be correct near that
city. Patent-pending spell-checking processes and
locationaries™ were
developed by Edgetech America, Inc. to enable spatially-smart
spell-checking.
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