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Reasons words get rejected
[edit]- The name of a product or company
- It's a word, per http://dictionary.reference.com/
- There is more than one word it could spellcheck to
- Every line takes more CPU, so I don't add misspellings with less than 6 results in Wikipedia...usually
- It's l33t speak. Many articles purposely include leet-speak, so fixing it is a no-no.
- It's 4 or fewer letters long
- alot → a lot (possible false positives)
- baited breath → bated breath (never used outside of userspace and possible false positives)
- calvalry → cavalry (possible false positives)
- case and point → case in point (possible false positives)
- cna → can (could be a TLA or other things)
- comparasion
- correspondan(t|ce) → correspondent (French words)
- couter → counter (could be courter)
- intergral → integral Name of a company
- millenium → millennium (name of a car)
- nickle(s) → nickel(s) (acceptable alternate spelling; however, some endings can be corrected, e.g., nickelodeon)
- posible → possible (name of a song)
- preception → perception
- sequal → sequel (name of company and products)
- strech → stretch (name of a company, however streched and streching are added)
- thier → their (last name)
- transexual → transsexual (legit spelling)
- weakday → weekday
