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Status: Fixed
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Closed: Mar 2016
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OS: Linux
Pri: 3
Type: Bug



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"infeasible" is recognized as misspelled, suggests "unfeasible" as replacement

Project Member Reported by stoyani@google.com, Mar 15 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.26 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
In any text box on any page, type "infeasible".

What is the expected behavior?
It should be recognized as a correct word.

What went wrong?
"infeasible" is marked as misspelled, and the context menu suggest replacing it with "unfeasible".

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 50.0.2661.26  Channel: beta
OS Version: ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 21.0 r0

According to Merriam-Webster, the correct spelling is "infeasible"; "unfeasible" is incorrect.
 
Components: -UI UI>Browser>Spellcheck

Comment 2 by groby@chromium.org, Mar 18 2016

Labels: -Pri-2 Pri-3
Status: Available (was: Unconfirmed)
en_US.dic does indeed not contain infeasible. en_AU and en_GB do. 

FWIW, OED marks infeasible as "now rare" and suggests "unfeasible". ngram viewer prefers "infeasible": https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=unfeasible%2Cinfeasible&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=5&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cunfeasible%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cinfeasible%3B%2Cc0

Which probably means we should have both in the dictionary.

Suggested quick fix: enable "Ask Google for Suggestions", which should at least demote it to a grey underline.  

Comment 3 by k...@chromium.org, Mar 31 2016

Status: Fixed (was: Available)
Components: -UI>Browser>Spellcheck UI>Browser>Language>Spellcheck

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