Adding words to dictionary

[Robert E. Carneal]

Can I add words to the dictionary in Gmail please? I am a family genealogist, and I often discuss names that are not in the dictionary. "Carneal" is one example that I discuss very often. "Carmanien" is another such name.  If I could add about 15 names to the dictionary, my spell check would go smoothier!

Before anyone yelps at me, I do see the "Add to dictionary" listed if I Right Click. I have done that several times, and it seems to "hold" for a while.  I am not sure at what point it goes away, but if I reboot, it acts as if "Carneal" were never added to the dictionary. Is there another way?

Thank you.

Robert
Genealogy without documentation is mythology! Always SOURCE your work.

[JohnW]

Robert,

There isn't a way to add to Gmail's "Check Spelling" (that's the one where you click on the Check Spelling at the top right corner of the Compose pane)..

However, that 'feature' may not be long for this world, as all current browsers - with the notable exception of IE -  include their own dictionaries, and those DO allow you to add to them.

I can't recall you saying which browser it is you deploy, but as a Gmail user I would strongly advise you to download/install the Chrome browser - it's so much better than IE! www.google.com/chrome

I will however point out that it is 'very minimalist' in comparison to former versions of IE (a path now trodden by IE9 and 10!) in that the familiar "top bar" (with File, View, etc) is not to be had. However, instead of having those "key words" on a Toolbar, Chrome has them under the "gear" wheel (upper right-hand corner) as choices you can use from there. [Not having Toolbars provides you with a little more acreage for the display, and you soon get used to going to the gear wheel for almost everything!]

Anyway, installing Chrome will provide you with a continuous dictionary spell-check: it underlines mis-spelt works with a wiggly red line. Right clicking on them offers you options on spelling, as well as 'Add to Dictionary', and provided your Chrome files are not set as Read only, then you should be able to add in all the words you want - and for them to stick!

Chrome does provide (under its Options menus) a choice of which versions of English you want to use for your normal spell-check function, as well as any foreign languages you might want to use.

[Andy]

> Before anyone yelps at me, I do see the "Add to dictionary" listed if I
> Right Click.

I suspect you are mixing up Gmail's spell-checker and your web
browser's spell-checker. As far as I can remember, Gmail has never
given us the option to "Add to dictionary". So you are probably
seeing that from your web browser; and adding words to its dictionary
doesn't affect Gmail's spell checker.

(Not to single out Kentucky, but it does have quite a rich share of
unique and interesting names. I lived there many years ago.)

Andy

[Robert E. Carneal]

Emphasis:

I can't recall you saying which browser it is you deploy, but as a Gmail user I would strongly advise you to download/install the Chrome browser - it's so much better than IE!

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I am using Firefox, version 8.0. I think that is the latest version.  Is Chrome that much better than Firefox?

Thank you.

Robert
Genealogy without documentation is mythology! Always SOURCE your work.

[Zack (Doc)]

A good clue there... Google doesn't typically intercept right-clicks, so that's another clue it's probably the browser. (Note: I didn't say they NEVER intercept right-clicks, just that it's the norm)

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[Zack (Doc)]

I'll jump right out there and say that I used to use Firefox till Chrome came out, and haven't gone back in a long time.  That said, I think it's a personal choice.  Both (FF and GC) have great features and work well, better than IE hands down.  I believe Chrome is faster, and it certainly gives the web pages more real estate on my desktop.  All my extensions go directly in, rather than depending on another extension to help them (GreaseMonkey).  I use a lot of Google Products, so it using my Google login to sync between my different computing platforms (two computers, one laptop, and one netbook) works good for me.

As I said, I haven't been back to FF in years, so some of the things I like the Chrome does were NOT done then, and MAY be done in FF now.  But Chrome has definitely proven faster, for me.

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[Sean Murphy]

    I have to second this. Even when I disabled all extensions in Firefox (and I freely admit I had waay too many) it ran slower than Chrome.