Did you know that in Office 2007, 58,ooo entries to the US English lexicon were added (most of these words also apply to the other English dialects that we support, which are UK, Australian and Canadian English)? Details:
- Possessives, i.e. the possessive form of words that already were in the lexicon
- The most frequent male, female and last names from the 2000 Census data and other sources. Examples: Brianne, Britta, Carissa, Carolyn, Carmela
- Company names, such as Verizon, WorldCom
- Names of autonomous Native American governmental units
- Names of the official UN countries, as well as most languages in our market areas, e.g. Indic language names
- Place names, such as all world capitals and other major cities, e.g. Wuppertal
- Miscellaneous words that were missing from the lexicon: e.g. Camus, Wyeth, Woolf
- In addition, Microsoft has added some lexical acquisition for Australian (in particular proper names, including possessives) and South African English.
Did you know that Office 2007 will also include a new feature called contextual spelling? Contextual spelling catches correctly spelled words that are not the correct word in the given context.
For example, “I bought a pear of shoes.” The traditional speller looks only at one word at a time whereas contextual spelling takes context into account. For this reason, we can find a whole new class of errors. Context spelling will be available in English, Spanish and German in Office 2007.
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