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From: own@castle.ed.ac.uk (O Morgan)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: French spelling checker?
Message-ID: <6902@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 29 Oct 90 12:53:03 GMT
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In article <3248@zap.UUCP> fortin@zap.UUCP (Denis Fortin) writes:
>French dictionaries.  We use a French version of Word for Windows at
>the office (it's fairly new & I haven't tried it yet, so I can't really
>comment on how good a job it does -- I suspect it doesn't a too great
>a job since in French the spelling mistakes tend to be contextual
>(as it "la maison de ces dames que j'ai repainte" where "repainte"
                                         ^^^^^^^^         ^^^^^^^^
>is spelt that way because "que" stands for "maison" (and not "dames")
>which is "feminin singulier"!).

Talking of spelling checkers, I make that "repeinte", though I have been
known to be wrong about spelling in the past (:-).  

I have always found it very difficult to get different spelling checkers
from Microsoft, I get refered to MS France, where they assure you all
sales in UK are handles by UK offices.  It seems to me they should be
able to sell multi-lingual copies of Word dictionaries in Europe, where
you get English, French, German, Italian, etc.... (do they have Gaellic
versions?) in one go.
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