Reviews for British English Dictionary (Marco Pinto)
British English Dictionary (Marco Pinto) by Marco A.G.Pinto
Review by Firefox user 14486427
Rated 4 out of 5
by Firefox user 14486427, 6 years agoExcellent that we have this dictionary. Shame we have to add it as an add-on rather than coming as standard in Firefox!
I realise that Mozilla is a US organisation but think it's reasonable to expect fuller language support.
There are some errors in this dictionary though: I noticed that words ending -ize are treated as correct whereas that is invariably the USA form, in Britain we tend to only use the -ise form.
I realise that Mozilla is a US organisation but think it's reasonable to expect fuller language support.
There are some errors in this dictionary though: I noticed that words ending -ize are treated as correct whereas that is invariably the USA form, in Britain we tend to only use the -ise form.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoHello!
Thank you for your comments.
GB also uses -IZE in most words according to the Oxford Dictionary (but there are exceptions).
As a premium account holder of the Oxford Dictionaries, I have access to more information regarding the words, where it states in -IZE words "also blah blah -ISE".
I wrote an example in the FAQ:
http://proofingtoolgui.org/faq.html#11
But pressing the link there will only show the full Oxford description to premium users, persons who are just visitors won't see it. Nothing I can do about it.
I believe that persons from Australia and Canada use -IZE and this speller can also be used by them.
I am planning to create a module for my Proofing Tool GUI tool to allow future AU+CA maintainers to create a list of words to add and to remove in/from the GB speller, so that they can create high quality spellers for their countries, based on mine (it is in my TO-DO list)... what I don't know is who would be interested in such a hard task.
My brother, kind regards!
I will continue working on the speller.
Thank you for your comments.
GB also uses -IZE in most words according to the Oxford Dictionary (but there are exceptions).
As a premium account holder of the Oxford Dictionaries, I have access to more information regarding the words, where it states in -IZE words "also blah blah -ISE".
I wrote an example in the FAQ:
http://proofingtoolgui.org/faq.html#11
But pressing the link there will only show the full Oxford description to premium users, persons who are just visitors won't see it. Nothing I can do about it.
I believe that persons from Australia and Canada use -IZE and this speller can also be used by them.
I am planning to create a module for my Proofing Tool GUI tool to allow future AU+CA maintainers to create a list of words to add and to remove in/from the GB speller, so that they can create high quality spellers for their countries, based on mine (it is in my TO-DO list)... what I don't know is who would be interested in such a hard task.
My brother, kind regards!
I will continue working on the speller.
110 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14694209, a month ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by James, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Polza, 6 months ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Neophile, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 18159883, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Gildas Le Drogoff, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17684482, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by zenscape, 2 years agoThe big failing of Firefox is the lack of correction as you type. This addresses it 100% for me. Thank you, Marco!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17608574, 2 years agoThere are some words missing, but let's acclaim the author's big work for making it!
Developer response
posted 2 years agoYes, there are thousands of words missing.
I can't find them all by myself, that is why I need users to e-mail them to me or open a ticket in GitHub.
Thank you, dear brother!
<3 <3 <3 - Rated 5 out of 5by Robin Li, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17506149, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by J1, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by sjmur, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13008231, 3 years agoNon-native speaker communicating with other non-native speakers in British English, simply because I hate American English.
Works really well! Thank you. - Rated 5 out of 5by Dr. Chas A Bowles MD, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Cyberknight, 3 years agoThis is one of the best dictionaries available on any platform/app/system. Not only has it the most complete set of words, venturing into many different branches of knowledge, but it's also very actively updated, with lots of words added and revised every month. If it's taken into account that this is an open-source initiative, it's not only amazing, it's really amusing. I wish dictionaries for other languages were this well maintained!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bad Goyim, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17231651, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15546565, 3 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Paul White, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13420335, 3 years agoAn exceptionally well-kept and up-to-date English dictionary. Highly recommended. The generous author also has versions for LibreOffice and other apps on his web site (I use it for all other Hunspell-compatible apps like Notepad++, SoftMaker’s apps, and the like). The dictionary has been in continuous development for years and I doubt if you can find a better substitute for it. If you look at the change-log for each release, then you will see that hundreds, or even thousands, of new words and combinations are added, bugs are fixed, and corrections and significant improvements are made each time (on a monthly basis so far). Truly one of a kind operation that certainly takes a lot of time and dedication from the author. I have Marco’s dictionary installed everywhere and I take the latest version of it with me on a USB drive to install it on any computer that I happen to use. Kudos to Marco for supporting this gem for so long. I can see the love you are pouring into this work every day. Keep up this wonderful and significant work! <3
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ronaldo7, 3 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Tommy, 3 years ago