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Open the Wikipedia article, select "edit" from the menu atop the page or section, select and copy the article source, paste it into a Word or Writer document, follow the red (spelling) and green (grammar) markers, and correct mistakes as necessary. To enable spellchecking in Microsoft Word, go to the Tools menu and enable "Grammar and ...
It might seem logical that where spell-checking dictionaries are concerned, "the bigger, the better," so that correct words are not marked as incorrect. In practice, however, an optimal size for English appears to be around 90,000 entries. If there are more than this, incorrectly spelled words may be skipped because they are mistaken for others.
This page provides a list of English words, terms, abbreviations and acronyms commonly encountered by Wikipedia editors. You may copy it and add it to your software's spell-check dictionary. Please add to the list!
Generating from the Wikipedia:Lists of common misspellings list. This machine-readable version of misspelled words is usually out-of-date compared to the actual listing pages for each of the individual, human-readable lists.
See Wikipedia:Typo for information on and coordination of spellchecking work. Note that not all occurrences of these spellings will be misspellings: if they are in song titles, for instance, they must be left as the song writer intended (but it is worth checking back to sources); if they are in transliterations such as "Tao Te Ching" or in ...
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After that once incident, in-line spell-checking disappeared for a long time (requiring scanning as a regular chore) until it appeared in (I think) a Windows 3.1-era MS Word edition was released that featured the jaggy red lines that are now everywhere and are standard practice. This was a major development in spell checker interface design ...
Mozilla Firefox offers built-in spell checking since version 2.0. Link to additional languages. Opera 10 has built-in Hunspell spellchecker (before v10 can use GNU Aspell (textboxes only). Google Toolbar offers spell checking in various languages for Internet Explorer. A well-designed spell checker for Internet Explorer is ieSpell.