Issue 94252 - Archaeology is spelled incorrectly in dictionary
Summary: Archaeology is spelled incorrectly in dictionary
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
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Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.0
Hardware: All Windows XP
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2008-09-23 23:35 UTC by thelonesoldier
Modified: 2013-01-29 21:50 UTC (History)
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Description thelonesoldier 2008-09-23 23:35:14 UTC 
The word "archaeology" is spelled incorrectly as "archeology" in the default 
English-language dictionary in OOo 2.4.1.

Additionally, the word "axe" is missing from the dictionary, although it 
contains "ax".

Additionally, "naive" is autocorrected to "naïve", but "naïve" is not in the 
dictionary.
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2008-09-24 05:28:46 UTC 
Reassigned to SBA.
Comment 2 andreschnabel 2008-10-29 12:47:42 UTC 
confirmed using OOo 3.0.0 final using EN-US dictionaries

"archeology" is spelled correctly now in the dictionary but the other problems
still exist:

"axe" is missing from the dictionary
"naive" is autocerrected to "naïve" but this is missing form the dictionary
Comment 3 thelonesoldier 2008-10-29 18:55:58 UTC 
ARCHAEOLOGY is still not in the dictionary. Apparently archeology is an 
acceptable spelling but it is relatively uncommon: 22 million web hits for 
archaeology vs. 4.8 million for archeology. The top result for "archeology" 
is "archAeology.com". The Wikipedia article is titled "archaeology". I have two 
textbooks which use "archaeology" in the title.
Comment 4 andreschnabel 2008-10-29 19:28:22 UTC 
sorry - "archeology" is indeed still wrong - so all problems still exist
Comment 5 hosseini 2009-03-31 05:27:29 UTC 
Both spelling are correct.the problem is the UK and US dictionary. Archaeology
and axe are the British spelling which are not recognized by the US
dictionary.By changing the dictionary to UK the American spelling will be
underlined! so which ever dictionary you prefer you can add the word to the
dictionary.I prefer British!
Comment 6 thelonesoldier 2009-03-31 09:10:24 UTC 
Archaeology is not just a British spelling. It seems to be a widely preferred 
spelling - again, you can compare volume of web search results for a better 
idea. Just now I searched both spellings again:

"Archeology" - 723,000 results
"Archaeology" - 40,800,000 results

As you can see, the number of results for "archaeology" outnumbers 
the 'American' spelling by FORTY MILLION. Both spellings should be included in 
the American dictionary.

I live in the US, but I am much more used to the spellings "axe" 
and "archeology".
Comment 7 thelonesoldier 2009-03-31 09:12:25 UTC 
*sigh* Of course I spelled that wrong... I meant to say I am more used to the 
spelling "archaeology", not "archeology"