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Google Chrome Dictionary Location

I'm trying to find the dictionary file for Google Chrome on OS X - I'd like to remove certain words from the dictionary so that I don't use them when writing email (such as 'foolish' for example). In Firefox, this was a simply a matter of editing…
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Where on disk does the macOS system-wide dictionary store the list of words I added?

I added a lot of words to the standard Mac OS X system-wide dictionary on a given machine, and would like to transfer that specific list of words to another machine. Where / in what file(s) is that list of words stored?
avernet
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How to convert aspell dictionary to simple list of words?

I want to get list of all words from aspell dictionary. I downloaded aspell and aspell polish dictionary, then unziped it using: preunzip pl.cwl I got…
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Reading values from plist nested dictionaries in shell script

I have a plist file and I'm interested in fetching values from nested dictionaries using shell script. Here is the structure of my plist file: Countries USA …
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Why did Microsoft Word switch to French spell check on me?

I was editing a document in Office Word 2007 on Windows XP and suddenly all sorts of words are underlined as misspelled. I go into Word options and it talks about French dictionary! In the preferences, my primary language is set to English (US)…
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How to edit the system/user dictionary in Windows 8?

Windows 8 has system-wide spell-check/autocorrect: Users can also choose to add unknown words to their own custom dictionary: I believe the dictionary is one of the settings that is synced/roamed as well. So, how is one to edit the dictionary to,…
Karan
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How do I disable the Command-Control-D word definition keyboard shortcut in OS X Lion?

Mac OS X Lion introduced a new feature where in many applications you can press Command-Control-D to produce a popup with the definition for the word under the mouse cursor. A side effect of this is that you can no longer use the same shortcut to…
Zane Shelby
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Remove contextual "Find in Dictionary" from Mac OSX options

Mac OSX integrates dictionary to find out the meaning of a word almost in any application by opening the contextual menu associated to a word. That is a nice feature but it can become quite annoying especially on Chrome. Here is an illustration…
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(Free) Dictionary Softwares on Windows

On Mac OS X, its native dictionary application works well for me (especially the added Japanese dictionary in Leopard). I am looking for an equivalent English dictionary software on Windows. I have tried online solutions such as "define:Google" in…
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What do the acronyms mean after the slash in the Firefox dictionary?

What do these capital letters mean after the / character in the en-US.dic file found in the \Firefox\Dictionaries folder? For…
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How to convert stardict dictionary file format to any readable format?

How to convert stardict dictionary file format to any readable format (xml, txt or something)?
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Can I delete dictionary entries in Word?

You know how it is: Red sqiggly line under word, looks OK to me, click on "Add to Dictionary" -- sudden realisation, that's NOT how you spell it. Now what? Can I make things right again, or am I stuck with Word accepting a mis-spelling?
Nick
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Dealing with Word spell check in technical documents?

I have waste millions of hours clicking the Ignore Once button in Word, while trying to spell check a document related to development. Be that something light on terms like a proposal or something worse like technical specs. I'm beginning to think…
Robert MacLean
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Google Chrome AutoCorrect?

Is there a spell checker for Google Chrome that can automatically fix certain spelling errors? Just like MS office has an auto correct feature, is there anything similar for Google's Chrome?
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In Gnome, how do I backup my spell-check dictionary?

I frequently add non-standard words to the dictionary, and would not like to lose it. Is there any way to save it somewhere, so that I would never have to start over ?
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