According to Thunderbird, the most widely used freeware email client, the word “occurance” is not a word, or at least it cannot detect that it is supposed to be spelled “occurrence.” I found it interesting that Firefox does not flag is as misspelled, yet Thunderbird does. Mozilla makes both of these products…you would think they would use the same dictionary. Hmm.
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Isn’t it “occurence?”
Because if not I’ve been spelling it wrong for awhile.
Yeah, I guess Mozilla just doesn’t know it. I have actually run across a few other normal English words that it underlines as misspelled, yet MS Word and Google know perfectly. Hmm.
It’s spelled “occurrence.” I’m not sure why Firefox didn’t tell you it was misspelled; I found this page when I went to look up the word after I also spelled it “occurance” and I’m using Firefox.
I just experienced the same problem with Thunderbird not recognizing my spelling. I guess I’m becoming old and forgetful of my literary heritage. I generally refer and defer to the Oxford Dictionary since I assume the Oxford English types ought to know something about their native language.
Consulting my hard copy Oxford Concise English dictionary, it spells the word “occurrence”. When I type it into my Thunderbird message, the spell checker accepts this spelling. I find it curious that Thunderbird’s spell checker isn’t sufficiently intelligent as to suggest this spelling.
That is the thing though….it usually is, and will suggest spelling for 99% or words I come across…there are just a few that I guess never made it into the mozilla database.
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