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From: root@cca.ucsf.edu (Systems Staff)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Spelling checker routines
Summary: Another approach
Message-ID: <1922@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 3 May 89 02:10:48 GMT
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In article <11348@tekecs.GWD.TEK.COM>, andrew@frip.wv.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) writes:
> 
> The approach used in the spelling corrector component of the Unica(tm)
> utility set was to look through a (separate) dictionary of commonly
> misspelled words, which includes the correct spelling:

Another approach (if you are really enthusiastic) is to generate the
soundex code for the word to look up and use this to access a copy
of the dictionary.

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