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There are misspelled words in the dictionary used by Thunderbird. Two questions similar to mine were answered by the suggestion of selecting Write, then options / spelling, then edit Personal Dictionary. When I followed these instructions, I found that my Personal Dictionary did not contain the misspelled words which were being accepted by whatever dictionary was being used. E.G., if I misspelled the word "just " as "jsut", this was accepted. Is there another dictionary which needs to be corrected?
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From TB Tools/Add-ons/Extensions, click the gear icon next to Search, Install add-on from file, select the downloaded xpi file.
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Personal Dictionary is for adding (correctly spelled) words that aren't in the spelling dictionary. Which dictionary did not flag jsut as misspelled?
Re: "Which dictionary did not flag jsut as misspelled" - it looks like the only dictionary being used is the Personal Dictionary. See att.
No other dictionaries referenced. Maybe a version problem?
In the attached picture, you can see that the EN-US dictionary flags jsut as misspelled. Is there a dictionary defined in Options/Composition/Spelling/Language? The EN-US spellchecker can be installed from here.
Thanks for the info. I will install the EN-US spellchecker
I don't seem to have a "composition" option as an option. (See att.)
Choose Tools/Options from the main window (or the Write window).
Ahh. Tools/Options. :)
No dictionary listed - but there is the option "Download more dictionaries".
That ought to do it. Thanks.
I downloaded the dictionary.
Not sure of next step. I don't think Thunderbird knows it's available.
The Add-ons page, where I downloaded it from, said: "Installing a dictionary add-on will add a new language option to your Thunderbird spell-checker"
It looks like I need to do more.
Chosen Solution
From TB Tools/Add-ons/Extensions, click the gear icon next to Search, Install add-on from file, select the downloaded xpi file.