Obama Spells Baa

Apparently, Microsoft Word now knows the difference between Obama and Osama.

This got me thinking - what does EditLive's spell checker think? Not a lot better than Word used to... the suggestions for Obama were

• Baa
• Bam
• Badman
• Bagman
• Barman

Can we please add Obama to the dictionary for the upcoming EditLive! 6.5 release?

Oh, and is it too early to add Obama as a suggested synonym in the thesaurus for the word President?

Comments

[Adrian Sutton]

Just for the record, many of our internal systems use the improved English dictionary from http://liveworks.ephox.com/2008/01/22/improving-the-english-dictionary/

I'm pretty sure Obama won't have made the top 500 male names in the US (maybe once he wins though) so it still wouldn't be in there - I doubt Osama would either. I find it to be a much better dictionary, sourced from a combination of freely available word lists. It can be a little too forgiving though, accepting both email and e-mail and in many cases accepting both -ise and -ize endings. That said, the words it contains are either acceptable for use in official scrabble tornaments or found in at least 6 different American English dictionaries.