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Spell Check Flags "Benefited" As Misspelled
DocumentID: 650701
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:01 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: Spell flags the word "benefited" as misspelled. The speller give the choice "benefitted" as a correct spelling. Solutions: A good number of words have alternate spellings because the language is always changing--"older" spellings of words become obsolete or they merely become less common. Dictionaries usually indicate a word's most common spelling and then follow it somewhere in the text of the definition with an alternate spelling that is currently acceptable, but less common. I think that most people prefer to have only the more common spelling of a word included in the WordPerfect Speller.

This really comes down to the question, "What is the purpose of the Speller?" It seems clear that the Speller is not intended to be a comprehensive authority on the English lexicon. Rather, it is a source of help to a very diverse body of users that want to keep misspelled words out of their documents. Users shouldn't expect to be able to go to the Speller to find out whether or not a word exists. They should expect only to find the most common spelling of a word that is likely to be used by most people. They can go to an actual dictionary if they want more than that.

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