# My firefox dictionary doesn't recognise "where've" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 27, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097 "2010-11-27T20:20:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/1 "2010-11-27T20:20:44Z")
And the more I type it, the less _I_ recognise it! It’s starting to look… _not right_. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/2 "2010-11-27T20:25:34Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/3 "2010-11-27T20:36:59Z")
Mine doesn’t like the word “movie”. It gives me the angry red squiggle-underline. I think I got a highbrow version of Firefox that prefers to watch “films”. ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/4 "2010-11-27T20:55:16Z")
Mine doesn’t recognize “should’ve”. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/5 "2010-11-27T21:39:49Z")
Movie and online. I mean, online? Really? ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2010, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/6 "2010-11-27T23:46:50Z")
Mine doesn’t recognize any contractions. Quite annoying really as I have to remember if I’m spelling it right. I’ve added a few to the dictionary, but it still comes up with some. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/7 "2010-11-28T01:53:17Z")
“Customizability” ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/8 "2010-11-28T02:07:21Z")
Mine almost always has an issue with contractions. The VBB forum for TiVo users has uses a built in spell checker, whoever set it up, for some reason, didn’t add the word Tivo to it. AOL, used to offer text to speech for it’s email, they really needed to put an exception in so it knew to say A-O-L when the word came up instead of Aol (rhymes with howl). ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/9 "2010-11-28T02:22:46Z")
Your dictionaries were written by Mr Data.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/10 "2010-11-28T02:52:30Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Your dictionaries were written by Mr Data.😃 Is he related to Mr Coffee? ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/11 "2010-11-28T04:28:46Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > And the more I type it, the less _I_ recognise it! > > It’s starting to look… _not right_. In its defense, I don’t recognize it either. That isn’t an American word as far as I know. That said, my installation of Firefox got kicked out of school pretty early. It amazes me sometimes with the words it has never heard of. Numero uno of those is the word ‘internet’. You would think that would be one of the ones it understands intuitively backwards and forwards but that is not the case. It knows the word exists but not in lower case form. ‘Internet’ is Ok and it is all over ‘INTERNET’ but god forbid you don’t drop a capitalized character in there or it will be all over your shit just to mess with you. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/12 "2010-11-28T06:48:07Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > In its defense, I don’t recognize it either. That isn’t an American word as far as I know. Sure it is. It’s a simple contraction of “where have.” > [@](#): > > Numero uno of those is the word ‘internet’. You would think that would be one of the ones it understands intuitively backwards and forwards but that is not the case. It knows the word exists but not in lower case form. ‘Internet’ is Ok and it is all over ‘INTERNET’ but god forbid you don’t drop a capitalized character in there or it will be all over your shit just to mess with you. Well, Internet is a proper noun, so it should be capitalized. [sub]There is an ancient common usage where “internet” referred to any TCP/IP network which may or may not have been connected to _the_ Internet, but nobody uses this term anymore.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/13 "2010-11-28T06:57:29Z")
Mine used to have problems with all contractions, as it would use the apostrophe as a word separator. But I haven’t had that problem in a long time. But it still has to have every single contraction as a separate word, so of course the less common ones are going to be left out. If it puts a whole red squiggly under a word, and I know it’s a real word (and I double check using Google), I right click and add it. The software works for me, not the other way around. There’s no reason I should have to put up with stupid squigglies. That said, I’m still on the fence about removing words that are real that I don’t use when they are similar to others. It’s a more invasive change, as you have to edit the actual spelling text file. And really, is the ability to not accidentally use “cant” or “wont” really worth it? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/14 "2010-11-28T06:58:56Z")
> [@picunurse](#): > > Your dictionaries were written by Mr Data.😃 Because it is that type of thread, I’ll break my no nitpicking rule and say this: His name is Mr\*\*.\*\* Data, not Mr Data. In a spelling related thread, you ought to get that right 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/15 "2010-11-29T14:29:14Z")
Found another; “there’ll” for “there will”. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Why](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/96bed5/32.png) [@Doctor\_Why](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Why)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/16 "2010-11-30T05:03:28Z")
My wife’s spellcheck at work does not recognize “definitely”. It changes it to “definately”. She works at a school. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/17 "2010-11-30T05:08:46Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Because it is that type of thread, I’ll break my no nitpicking rule and say this: > > His name is Mr\*\*.\*\* Data, not Mr Data. In a spelling related thread, you ought to get that right 🙂 Mister is a title. His name is Data. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/18 "2010-11-30T07:29:32Z")
> [@Hades](#): > > Mister is a title. His name is Data. Touche. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/19 "2010-12-01T00:32:07Z")
> [@Hades](#): > > Mister is a title. His name is Data. It’s a machine. _Its_ name is Mr. Data. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097/20 "2010-12-01T02:55:18Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Because it is that type of thread, I’ll break my no nitpicking rule and say this: > > His name is Mr\*\*.\*\* Data, not Mr Data. In a spelling related thread, you ought to get that right 🙂 Isn’t that a matter of punctuation, rather than spelling? 😃 Maybe I should have said [Lieutenant Commander](http://www.startrek.com/database_article/data) Data. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-firefox-dictionary-doesnt-recognise-whereve/562097.md?page=2)