[meta] Add word _____ which is not in American English dictionary / recognized / suggested / misspelled by spell checker (spell checking, spelling, spell checker, en-US)
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oxymoronic, oxymoronically - different forms of oxymoron
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ramped - Provide with a ramp.
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definitional - related to definitions
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captcha - a tool to defeat spammers, etc.
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lingua franca - Native tongue
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'extensibility'
eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensibility
Also in wordlist - https://github.com/en-wl/wordlist/issues/241
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bona fides - Honesty of intention. Neither word is in the dictionary.
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wishy-washy - Feeble or insipid in quality or character.
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pixelated, pixelate - Divided into pixels
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'extortionary'
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/extortionary
Also in wordlist - https://github.com/en-wl/wordlist/issues/242
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mea cupla - My fault
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colocation - to put servers from various companies in the same warehouse
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Cosplay - verb the practice of dressing up as a character from a movie, book, or video game, especially one from the Japanese genres of manga and anime.
cosplayer - one who does cosplay
supervillain - A fictional villain with superhuman powers.
stoolie - A police informer.
backstab - verb, to betray
geopolitically - adverb form of geopolitical
bon mot - A witty remark (mot is in, bon is not)
bon vivant - A person who devotes themselves to a sociable and luxurious lifestyle. (neither word is in the dictionary)
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nitty -- full of nits (e.g. nitty gritty)
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renewables -- referring to power from renewable sources (solar, wind etc.)
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appointor - the person that appoints somebody
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moulder - disintegrate, variant of molder
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journal (verb) - Write in a journal or diary.
severability - Ability to be severed
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addendums - plural of addendum
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annualize - to calculate or adjust to reflect a rate based on a full year
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scalability - The capacity to be changed in size or scale.
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proration - the noun form of prorate
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withholdings - plural
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· phimosis - tightness or constriction of the orifice of the foreskin arising either congenitally or postnatally (as from balanoposthitis) and preventing retraction of the foreskin over the glans
· phimoses - plural of phimosis
· areola - a small area between things or about something
especially : a colored ring (as about the nipple, a vesicle, or a pustule)
· areolae - plural of areola
· areolas - plural of areola
· areolar - adjective from areola
· areolate - adjective from areola
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socioeconomic
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unassigning - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unassigning - present participle of unassign
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uncontradicted - not contradicted
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meritless - Without legal basis or support
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infographic - a chart, diagram, or illustration
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Ekanan Ketunuti, I miss you! It's been five months since you've shared your dutiful help!
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(In reply to mlissner from comment #369)
Ekanan Ketunuti, I miss you! It's been five months since you've shared your dutiful help!
Mozilla's new policy force me to use tool I'm uncomfortable with. I'm not gonna do this anymore, sorry!
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I'm sorry to hear that. What new tool?
Anybody else able/willing to merge these words into the spellchecker?
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(In reply to mlissner from comment #371)
I'm sorry to hear that. What new tool?
Phabricator, a tool for submitting the patch. Unlike submitting the patch here, in bugzilla, It makes my life difficult.
Anybody else able/willing to merge these words into the spellchecker?
You wanna try?
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You wanna try?
No, I do code all day, have two young kids, and am building a house. Best I can do is submit words that belong in the spellchecker. I need somebody else that can merge them. :(
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'misremembering'
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'triaged'
triage already exists - just need the past tense.
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Whistleblower - one who blows the whistle on some kind of scandal
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gaslighted, gaslighting, gaslights - Manipulate (someone) by psychological means into doubting their own sanity.
exposé - A report in the media that reveals something discreditable.
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amped up - Full of nervous energy
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compatibilities - plural of compatibility
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shroom - A mushroom, especially one with hallucinogenic properties.
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(In reply to Fanolian from comment #379)
compatibilities - plural of compatibility
This is a very weird one. I have not seen this in the wild.
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It's here: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/compatibilities
It says:
noun, plural compatibilities
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udon - a Japanese noodle
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oppositional - Characterized by resistance or dissent.
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judgy/judgey - Overly critical; judgemental.
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(In reply to mlissner from comment #385)
judgy/judgey - Overly critical; judgemental.
Isn't this just a slang form of judgemental? Not to say that I am against slang or anything, but the word already exists and as far as I can tell, brings nothing new to the table.
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uncompassionate
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stylometry - The statistical analysis of variations in literary style between one writer or genre and another.
Also: stylometric
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outsized - overly large
unexamined - Not investigated or examined.
gatekeeping - The activity of controlling, and usually limiting, general access to something.
appealable - (of a case or ruling) able to be referred to a higher court for review.
codebook - a book containing an alphabetical list of words or expressions with their code equivalents
Convolutional - 1 : a form or shape that is folded in curved or tortuous windings
windings - 1 : material (such as wire) wound or coiled about an object (such as an armature)
listserv —used for software for managing e-mail transmissions to and from a list of subscribers
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covariate - any of two or more random variables exhibiting correlated variation
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Sorry, that should have been "covariates", plural. Singular is in there.
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Jitter(s)
jitters plural : a sense of panic or extreme nervousness had a bad case of the jitters before his performance
2 : the state of mind or the movement of one that jitters
3 : irregular random movement (as of a pointer or an image on a television screen) also : vibratory motion
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siloed - kept in isolation in a way that hinders communication and cooperation : separated or isolated in a silo
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crystalize - 1 : to cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form
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smidge - A small amount (variant of "smidgen")
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Millennials - Don't make me define them. They can't be put in a box or pigeonholed! Anyway, the singular is in the dictionary, but not the plural.
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disambiguating - disambiguate is in, but this isn't.
disambiguated - same
disambiguates - same
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amongst: Amongst is a preposition, meaning in the midst of, surrounded by, in the company of, or in association with. There is no demonstrable difference of sense or function between amongst and among; both can be used interchangeably, but one may be chosen over the other for stylistic reasons, and since amoungst is standard English it should not register as a spelling error.
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Biscotti - "Italian almond biscuits that originated in the city of Prato. They are twice-baked, oblong-shaped, dry, crunchy, and may be dipped in a drink".
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Summited -- past tense of summit. The act of having reached the summit of a peak. (Yes, this is a verbed noun, but it's common usage amongst those who do such things.)
And while we're at it: Verbed. The act of making a verb out of a noun.
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single-handedly - by yourself
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themself - now used chiefly in place of "himself or herself" as a gender-neutral reflexive form of they when the reference is to a single person
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'repurpose' / transitive verb / to give a new purpose or use to
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'golem' / noun / 1 : an artificial human being in Hebrew folklore endowed with life, 2 : something or someone resembling a golem
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subpoenable - Able to be subpoenaed. (https://www.yourdictionary.com/subpoenable)
According to this opinion, Trump's taxes are subpoenable: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.523086/gov.uscourts.nysd.523086.35.0.pdf
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Enclosed please find 6,098 words from the Merriam Webster dictionary that are not in Firefox. These were added to Merriam Webster between 1920 and 2020.
These took some effort and programming to gather, and I hope somebody can take this submission from here and add these 6,098 words to Firefox.
Skimming these words, I find many are:
- Medical or scientific
- Just regular words that the spellchecker lacks
- Food related
Adding these words will make a BIG difference to the quality of the spellchecker.
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New word additions from a Hacker News comment:
tunable
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tunable
epicycle
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epicycle
inductor
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inductor
transactional
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/transactional
blacksmithing
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blacksmithing
inductor
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inductor
solvability
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/solvability
verifier
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verifier
ethicist
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ethicist
tradable
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tradable
splitter
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/splitter
surveil
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surveil
responder
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/responder
commenter
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commenter
prosecutable
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prosecutable
subtractive
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/subtractive
The word audit-able should be updated to "auditable", as well.
Also opened in wordlist: https://github.com/en-wl/wordlist/issues/266
Comment 409•6 years ago
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alma - As in "alma mater"
Comment 410•5 years ago
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"misgender"
Comment 411•5 years ago
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absorber
That which absorbs. The dictionary already has absorb, absorbs, absorbing, and absorbed.
Comment 412•5 years ago
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(In reply to Loren Pechtel from comment #411)
absorber
That which absorbs. The dictionary already has absorb, absorbs, absorbing, and absorbed.
Can't I edit?
Example, in your car: Shock absorber.
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archdiocese - the diocese of an archbishop
Comment 414•5 years ago
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Einsteinian - of or related to Einstein. Example: you need to use Einsteinian math here. (Somebody got a FTL result from using Newtonian math and didn't realize the problem.) Newtonian is in the dictionary, Einsteinian should also be.
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Unintuitive - "not easily graspable by intuition"
("Intuitive" is included, however.)
Comment 416•5 years ago
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ramen — technically Japanese, but enough college kids in the US eat instant ramen that it should be added. Arigato!
I am not suggesting arigato be added; I'm saying "thank you" in Japanese. ;)
Comment 417•5 years ago
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scopist - an editor of a legal transcript
Comment 418•5 years ago
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Entendre, as in double entendre, which is a phrase that has two meanings, especially where one is innocent and literal, the other risqué, bawdy, or ironic; an innuendo.
Comment 419•5 years ago
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Lethality. How capable something is of causing death.
Comment 420•5 years ago
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Unlasting. It's a song title, but Dictionary.com defines lasting (when searching for 'unlasting') and then lists unlasting as an adjective below. Not 100% sure how valid it is.
Comment 421•5 years ago
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paracord — short for parachute cord, it's a material used in straps, common in military use, but civilian as well. Grip6 uses them for their belts, as do correctional officers, and more.
Comment 422•5 years ago
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asexual or asexuals (plural was found to be flagged as misspelled). One who has no/little sexual desire. Colloquially, ace or aces, but asexual(s) is the proper term.
Comment 423•5 years ago
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prosthetics, plural of prosthetic, which is in the dictionary. A person with more than one prosthetic is said to have prosthetics.
Comment 424•5 years ago
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coronavirus
Sorry.
Comment 425•5 years ago
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explorative - synonym to exploratory
Comment 426•5 years ago
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gothic
Castlevania
Metroidvania
Comment 427•5 years ago
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gigadeaths. We have megadeaths, just because we haven't had a gigadeath event yet doesn't mean they can't happen.
Comment 428•5 years ago
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redisdistribution - distribution, except again
Comment 429•5 years ago
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nitrile - what you make non-latex gloves out of
Comment 430•5 years ago
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handwashing - The act of washing your hands
Comment 431•5 years ago
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gendering - verb form, to engender.
Comment 432•5 years ago
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mitigable - able to be mitigated
Comment 433•5 years ago
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composable - Able to be composed, as from pieces
Comment 434•5 years ago
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Moz devs: There's about 60 comments here that propose adding around 100 words to Firefox's spellchecker. Is there any way we can get somebody — a volunteer, maybe a dev — to do the work it'd take to get these merged?
Some of the words are super esoteric, but others are pretty important, like "handwashing" and "nitrile". It'd be really great to get these in, and I think they'd be a pretty good first bug.
Any way to promote this issue?
Comment 435•5 years ago
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grayscale - varying tones of gray
Comment 436•5 years ago
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Disincentivize: https://www.lexico.com/definition/disincentivize
Comment 437•5 years ago
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permissibility
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/permissibility
Comment 438•5 years ago
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Another one that's usually esoteric but I have found myself using several times recently: fomite, more commonly encountered in the plural of fomites.
Comment 439•5 years ago
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(In reply to mlissner from comment #407)
Created attachment 9102697 [details]
mw-words-bad-ff-sorted-uniq-1920-2020.txtEnclosed please find 6,098 words from the Merriam Webster dictionary that are not in Firefox. These were added to Merriam Webster between 1920 and 2020.
These took some effort and programming to gather, and I hope somebody can take this submission from here and add these 6,098 words to Firefox.
Skimming these words, I find many are:
- Medical or scientific
- Just regular words that the spellchecker lacks
- Food related
Adding these words will make a BIG difference to the quality of the spellchecker.
Wouldn't this not be a copyright issue? Don't assume all the words are real, there might be trap words in there.
Comment 440•5 years ago
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I'm not sure. I guess it'd depend on:
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Would the selection of which words to put in a dictionary be considered copyrightable. Generally selection can be copyrightable, but the countervailing argument is that just putting names in a phone book isn't enough to be considered selection. (See Feist v. Rural Telephone Service: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/112568/feist-publications-inc-v-rural-telephone-service-co/).
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If making a dictionary counts as copyrightable, then the next question is: Is putting the words in a spell checker fair use. Fair use is a nasty, complicated process (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#U.S._fair_use_factors) with four factors:
- the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
- the nature of the copyrighted work;
- the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
- the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
My guess is that Mozilla would win on fair use. The purpose isn't really a commercial nature, the amount used is small in relation to a full dictionary, and the effect on the market for dictionaries would probably be nil.
All this said, I'm not a lawyer, so I could be way off. Is there a way to flag Mozilla's lawyers on bugs?
Comment 441•5 years ago
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Some words related to gender identity:
cisgender https://www.dictionary.com/browse/cisgender
nonbinary https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nonbinary
MTF https://www.dictionary.com/browse/mtf
FTM https://www.dictionary.com/browse/ftm
transfeminine https://www.dictionary.com/browse/transfeminine
transmasculine https://www.dictionary.com/browse/transmasculine
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Also, to the legal issue with incorporating the Merriam-Webster word list, you're correct that, by Feist v. Rural Telephone (as well as numerous other cases that have followed and upheld that decision), the mere list of words in the dictionary could not be copyrightable. Multiple cases (e.g. Nester's Map & Guide Corp. v. Hagstrom Map Co.) have also found that even trap entries are not copyrightable. Another factor to consider is that, from the research I've done, Merriam-Webster has never actually sued anyone over copyright infringement.
Comment 443•5 years ago
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Theia. The hypothetical planet that smacked Earth to form the moon.
Comment 444•5 years ago
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hydride, deuteride -- from chemistry/nuclear physics, a hydrogen or deuterium atom attached to another atom. This commonly occurs in chemical names.
Comment 445•5 years ago
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judgeships - Plural (singular is in there)
algorithmically - Done with an algorithm
Preprocessing, preprocess, preprocessed - to do preliminary processing of (something, such as data)
commensurability - the extent to which something can be commensurate
Comment 446•5 years ago
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laissez-faire -- In one sense it's not English, but it's one of these words we stole.
Comment 447•5 years ago
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Juneteenth - A holiday in the US to celebrate the freeing of the slaves (it's this Friday). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth
Comment 448•5 years ago
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millisievert, millisieverts -- a measure of radiation.
Comment 449•5 years ago
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doublings. Why can you have only one?
Comment 450•5 years ago
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skeuomorph - an ornament or design representing a utensil or implement
Also: skeuomorphic
Comment 451•5 years ago
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noise |
Kavanaugh
Comment 452•5 years ago
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fentanyl
Comment 453•5 years ago
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prosecutable
subtractive
tunable
epicycle
inductor
subparagraphs
transactional
micropayments
blacksmithing
inductor
solvability
verifier
ethicist
tradable
auditable
splitter
surveil
responder
commenter
bubonic
automata
conferenced
fineable
spectrogram
cantina
verifiability
automata
preprogrammed
pre-programmed
lifecycle
mosquitos
all-nighter
initializer
Q: I've read that Firefox uses Hunspell, which is also what Chrome, LibreOffice, and MacOS use. It would seem then that Firefox's massive inferiority in spell checking compared to, well frankly, everything else I've seen in the last decade that has a spell checker, must come down almost entirely to the dictionaries that it ships with. Why can't it ship with the same Hunspell dictionary that, say, LibreOffice uses? All of the words in the list above are handled fine by LibreOffice.
Comment 454•5 years ago
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Alpenglow - Now the name of a built-in theme in Firefox (currently Nightly only). (Wikipedia explanation)
throbber - "A throbber is an animated graphical control element used to show that a computer program is performing an action in the background." -wikipedia
Comment 455•5 years ago
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If something can be survivable, why can't it be unsurvivable?
Comment 456•5 years ago
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pendency - The state, condition, or period of being pending or awaiting settlement.
relatedly - Owing to a relationship or connection; so as to be related, in conjunction. Also as a sentence adverb: on a related point.
overinclusive - Excessively inclusive; (Psychology) characterized by overinclusion.
overinclusion - The indiscriminate inclusion of apparently irrelevant responses to a stimulus, as observed in some forms of mental illness.
underinclusive
underinclusion
Comment 457•5 years ago
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numbingly
As in Firefox dictionary is mind-numbingly bad. Also add mind-numbingly.
Comment 458•5 years ago
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More words Firefox incorrectly flags as misspelled. They all pass in Chrome, MacOS TextEdit, and LibreOffice:
ballistically
chewable
counterintuitive
exonerations
mistyped
per se
phosphine
programmability
recertification
shapeshifting
tradeoffs
webmail
Comment 459•5 years ago
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More words Firefox incorrectly flags as misspelled. They all pass in Chrome, MacOS TextEdit, and LibreOffice.
Q: I've read that Firefox uses Hunspell, which is also what Chrome, LibreOffice, and MacOS use.
OK, I had a quick look on these statements.
Libreoffice dictionary is smaller than Firefox's:
https://github.com/LibreOffice/dictionaries/blob/master/en/en_US.dic - 49 525 words
vs
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/extensions/spellcheck/locales/en-US/hunspell/en-US.dic - 53 236 words
But Libreoffice leverages the thesaurus as dictionary ( https://github.com/LibreOffice/dictionaries/blob/master/en/th_en_US_v2.dat referenced https://github.com/LibreOffice/dictionaries/blob/master/en/dictionaries.xcu#L82-L84 ) . This explains why Libreoffice is doing a better work.
Maybe we could leverage this but we would have to transform the file and evaluate if it has a perf impact
Moz devs: There's about 60 comments here that propose adding around 100 words to Firefox's spellchecker. Is there any way we can get somebody — a volunteer, maybe a dev — to do the work it'd take to get these merged?
It has been done before:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527545
I would be happy to help but, as a non native speaker, it isn't always easy to add the necessary metadata in the dic (documented here: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/groovy/man5/hunspell.5.html )
See https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/4f0ef1127517 as example
@Ekanan Ketunuti
I can help you if you want. We have now some better docs:
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html
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Comment 460•5 years ago
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(In reply to Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre] from comment #459)
@Ekanan Ketunuti
I can help you if you want. We have now some better docs:
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.html
Phabricator won't accept non-UTF-8 patch, unfortunately. I don't think i can do this.
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Comment 461•5 years ago
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(In reply to Ekanan Ketunuti from comment #460)
(In reply to Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre] from comment #459)
@Ekanan Ketunuti
I can help you if you want. We have now some better docs:
https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/contributing/contribution_quickref.htmlPhabricator won't accept non-UTF-8 patch, unfortunately. I don't think i can do this.
See bug 1658327.
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Comment 463•5 years ago
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noise |
How am I supposed to climb if I can't have a carabiner?
Comment 464•5 years ago
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exploitive: synonym for exploitative.
Comment 465•4 years ago
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monied: having money : wealthy
Comment 466•4 years ago
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champerty, champertous - https://www.lexico.com/definition/champertous
Comment 467•4 years ago
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dumbed - Less smart, like "dumbed down"
Comment 468•4 years ago
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movant - A person who applies to or petitions a court or judge for a ruling in their favor.
Comment 469•4 years ago
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octothorp - Another term for the pound sign
Comment 470•4 years ago
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prosecutorial - relating to the institution and conducting of legal proceedings against someone in respect of a criminal charge.
Comment 471•4 years ago
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manticore
survivorship
misclassified
ferrite
massless
rotator
dominator
untraceably
synchronizer
Comment 472•4 years ago
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comradery
Comment 473•4 years ago
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plusses - Alternate spelling for pluses, as in "plusses and minuses"
Comment 474•4 years ago
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unsee - A new addition to the dictionary, to forget having seen (something)
Comment 475•4 years ago
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Sapients. You can have only one of them??
Comment 476•4 years ago
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Things can be contained but they can't be uncontained?
(Context: the safety of transporting lithium-ion camera batteries without their safety covers.)
Comment 477•4 years ago
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dyad - a pair of things.
Comment 478•4 years ago
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mockumentary - A fake kind of documentary
Comment 479•4 years ago
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incongruent - not congruent
Comment 480•4 years ago
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balancer, balancers.
(Common usage, load balancers on large websites.)
Comment 481•4 years ago
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situationally
Merriam-Webster:
Definition of situational
1 : of, relating to, or appropriate to a situation
2 : of or relating to situation ethics
(In reply to Ekanan Ketunuti from comment #370)
(In reply to mlissner from comment #369)
Ekanan Ketunuti, I miss you! It's been five months since you've shared your dutiful help!
Mozilla's new policy force me to use tool I'm uncomfortable with. I'm not gonna do this anymore, sorry!
What does it take to update the dictionary? Looking through what google turns up seems to talk about how to deal with code changes to various aspects of the system, I don't see the dictionary at all. Nor do I have much experience with git, I normally use automated backups of changed files--if I need to know what it looked like in the past I can easily diff the current file against any previous version. Useless in a team environment, enough for anything I've ever needed in a solo environment.
Comment 482•4 years ago
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hydrocodone
Comment 483•4 years ago
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Moving the words in 1637693 that are still missing so 1637693 can be consolidated and closed.
unintuitive
counterproposal
toolchain
implementers
spaghettified
spaghettification
superluminal
reviewability
unvetted
vibrational
initialisms
Comment 485•4 years ago
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miscellanea - Miscellaneous items, especially literary compositions, that have been collected together.
Comment 486•4 years ago
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suicided, past tense of suicide. (And, no, it's not insensitive. I was referring to a rocket initiating it's own self destruct because it was coming apart.)
Comment 487•4 years ago
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suicided, past tense of suicide. (And, no, it's not insensitive. I was referring to a rocket initiating it's own self destruct because it was coming apart.)
unvaccinated.
Comment 488•4 years ago
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Must I point?? Why can't it be omnidirectional?
Comment 489•4 years ago
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resistive -- as in an electrical device that only has resistance. (In this case, a heating element.)
Comment 490•4 years ago
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comorbidities - plural of comorbidity which is in the dictionary.
Comment 491•4 years ago
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discontiguous
Comment 492•4 years ago
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More words I've come across that Firefox says are not spelled right, but Chrome, Safari, Word, and TextEdit on Mac say are:
ad hominem
algorithmically
another's
backlight
ballistically
coaxially
hatchling
impaction
implementer
implementor
inductor
intercellular
irrevocability
licensor
measurer
meerkats
mischaracterization
misclassification
misclassified
partygoers
passthrough
plough
retransmission
seatbelt
sensationalistic
trichotomy
underspecified
untyped
Comment 493•4 years ago
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Hi, Tim! Long time.
I'll argue that "implementor" is a misspelling. And "plough" is British.
But the others are useful additions; thanks for posting them.
Comment 494•4 years ago
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Can't you be wrong?
mischaracterize
mischaracterizing
Comment 495•4 years ago
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And can't you burn more than one thing?
burning is in the dictionary, but burnings is not. It can be plural: the recent church burnings in Canada.
Comment 496•4 years ago
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Moderna. Yeah, it's a name, but it's used enough these days I think it belongs in the dictionary.
Comment 497•4 years ago
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Moderna. Yeah, it's a name, but it's used enough these days I think it belongs in the dictionary.
Sentients. The most common use is as an adjective, but it can be a noun--a species that is sentient. While there is no use for the plural in describing today it's a meaningful concept in discussions of the future.
Comment 498•4 years ago
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misconfiguration
Comment 499•4 years ago
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biblically
Comment 500•4 years ago
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lumens, the plural of lumen. The singular is there but one lumen is a very dim bulb!
Comment 501•4 years ago
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prothonotary - a chief clerk of any of various courts of law
(I've worked in legal for a decade and never seen, this word until today, but it exists.)
Comment 502•4 years ago
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sniffly - having a sniffle
Comment 503•3 years ago
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addictiveness
Comment 504•3 years ago
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collimation, collimated and probably some other forms that don't come to mind right now.
Comment 505•3 years ago
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Hello ananuti, would you like to push an update of the dic with the new propositions ? :)
Comment 506•3 years ago
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zoonotic
Comment 507•3 years ago
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Ossetia
The country South Ossetia.
Comment 508•3 years ago
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unaffordable unaffordably
Too expensive for your means. :(
Comment 509•3 years ago
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Comment 510•3 years ago
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sayonara - Goodbye in Japanese, but also often in English.
Comment 511•3 years ago
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Abrahamic - of Abraham -- normally used to refer to Judaism, Christianity and Islam collectively.
Comment 512•3 years ago
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symbioite, symbioites
Symbiosis is already there.
Comment 513•3 years ago
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unfalsifiable - something that can't be disproven.
disproven - proven false.
Comment 514•3 years ago
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lede - the opening sentence of an article
Comment 515•3 years ago
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unexploded - the state of not having exploded. Normally encountered in the context of unexploded ordnance--something that was supposed to go boom didn't and is now a hazard.
Comment 516•3 years ago
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heritability - the ability to be inherited, or the portion of factor passed from parent to offspring.
Comment 518•3 years ago
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Redirect a needinfo that is pending on an inactive user to the triage owner.
:smaug, since the bug has recent activity, could you have a look please?
For more information, please visit auto_nag documentation.
Updated•3 years ago
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Comment 519•3 years ago
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Ferritin - A protein produced in mammalian metabolism which serves to store iron in the tissues.
Comment 520•3 years ago
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missileer - someone whose job it is to fire missiles, normally in a military context.
Comment 521•3 years ago
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verifiably - capable of being verified.
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Comment 523•3 years ago
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speculum - that instrument gynecologists use to peer inside the vagina.
Comment 524•3 years ago
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emplace - to put into place, usually referring to something that's not going to be moved later.
Comment 525•3 years ago
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emplace - to put into place, usually referring to something that's not going to be moved later.
recoilless - something that doesn't have recoil, typically in regard to weapons. A recoilless rifle--a lightweight artillery piece the nearby ski resort uses for avalanche control.
Comment 526•3 years ago
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hydrolox - referring to a rocket fuel consisting of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.
methalox - referring to a rocket fuel consisting of liquid methane and liquid oxygen.
kerolox - referring to a rocket fuel consisting kerosene and liquid oxygen.
All of these also refer to the engines that burn it and the whole rocket.
Comment 527•3 years ago
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Mentorship - the guidance provided by a mentor, especially an experienced person in a company or educational institution.
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Comment 528•2 years ago
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Bug #1808224 is pretty thrilling. I can't comment on it because it's closed, but I am one of the biggest contributors here and I'm really excited to see Mozilla picking this up again. The bad spellchecker in Firefox really is a bummer, which is what got me interested in this bug.
One thing I noticed on that issue is that it wants us to:
file separate bugs for new words
Maybe if Bugzilla has a template for this that we can use, that won't be so bad, but my initial impression is that I won't spend five minutes per word to create bugs for each of them. Is thee a faster way we could do this? Typically, I notice a missing word while writing an email or something, open this bug from my browser history, submit the new word, and continue my original task. All of that takes me about two minutes, which is fast enough that I don't lose my original context.
Thank you again for working on this! Very exciting to see it finally getting a resolution.
Comment 529•2 years ago
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Scunthorpe - a city in England, but much more widely known in reference to the Scunthorpe problem--namely, the impossible edge cases with filtering profanity.
Comment 530•2 years ago
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First of all, I'd like to thank every person who contributed words into this bug over time, and apologize for how long it took to include them.
I tried my best to go through the comments in this bug (over 2 years back) and other individual bugs, and include them in bug 1808224 if I could find definitions in external dictionaries.
Here's where we are now:
- Updated and improved the scripts used to manage the dictionary. It's now possible to provide a patch that shows the actual diff on Phabricator, since we have a copy of the dictionary with UTF-8 encoding (the actual dictionary is using ISO-8859-1, and shows up as a binary blob).
- Updated the documentation on how to manage the dictionary.
- Updated the dictionary to the latest version of SCOWL (2020.12.07).
- Created a distinct Bugzilla component dedicated to the en-US dictionary (
Core :: Spelling Checker: en-US Dictionary
). - Created an add-on on AMO that mirrors this dictionary, so that users that are not on the en-US build can install it from there.
The updated dictionary will ship in Firefox 110 (en-US build), which will be released on February 14.
Having a bug with over 500 comments doesn't scale, it gets really hard to track what's done, or discuss specific terms. That's why I'm going to close this meta bug with this comment (also because a meta bug is supposed to track other depending bugs, not include actionable work).
(In reply to mlissner from comment #528)
Maybe if Bugzilla has a template for this that we can use, that won't be so bad, but my initial impression is that I won't spend five minutes per word to create bugs for each of them. Is thee a faster way we could do this? Typically, I notice a missing word while writing an email or something, open this bug from my browser history, submit the new word, and continue my original task. All of that takes me about two minutes, which is fast enough that I don't lose my original context.
I went for the bug option as a start, with the idea of changing it after getting a sense of how many requests we actually receive. Note that the bug link in the doc already sends you to the right component, and it would be possible to create a template with subject and body pre-filled if it helps.
Another idea that I considered was using a Google Form. The downsides are:
- Not everybody loves Google services, or has access to them.
- It wouldn't provide a way to discuss.
You raise a good point about task switching (I've found myself in that situation just yesterday). If suggesting a new word takes too long, I might not want to maintain a separate list to file a bug later for a few of them, and just stop doing it.
Having an open bug for "Pending corrections" might work, the challenge becomes discoverability. Technically we could use an alias and link to that in the documentation, and move the alias to a new bug when that's fixed.
For now I filed a new bug here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=enus-dictionary
Please add new words there, I'll update the documentation accordingly.
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