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"wont" should probably be an error #1466
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I believe that the The difficult part is what to do about very rare words that are commonly misused in place of a common word. My proposal is to create a It would be included by default to flag issues that you have pointed out, but could be easily turned off by those who want to "full" English language. |
Hi @Jason3S, Your proposal sounds good. As a general rule I think software should always default to "make noise" rather than "silently continue" when there is sufficient doubt. |
Would the |
Here is an RFC exploring the issue: cspell/rfc/rfc-0001 suggestions |
Should I add
Oh, I just noticed
Also, now that I've had time to think about the (Happy Holidays, and sorry about the wall-of-text!) edit: add |
"wont" is currently considered correct by four dictionaries according to the
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I just ran (see below).I think most occurrences of "wont" are going to be misspellings of "won't", especially in code. "Wont" has a different meaning than "won't", is rarely used, and is generally considered to be an archaic word.
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