Remove accidental additions to the spelling dictionary

Aug 12, '04 10:33:00AM

Contributed by: Pedro Estarque

If you ever accidently clicked "Learn" in the spelling window of any Cocoa app, your dictionary will not recognize the wrong word the next time you repeat your mistake. If you want to make it "unlearn" the word, start by opening the folder ~/Library -> Spelling. You may find several files, one for each dictionary you use e.g.: en for English, Multilingual, pt_BR for Brazilian Portuguese, etc.

If you open one of these files in TextEdit or BBEdit, you will see that the words are not separated at all, and for some reason, pico will only recognize the first word added. I suggest using emacs in the Terminal, which separates each entrance by a ^@ symbol. You should type something like this:

emacs ~/Library/Spelling/en
Its also a nice way to add lots words using copy/paste.

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