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I've never had use of the word "teh". Not even certain it's actually a word beyond "Urban Dictionary" definitions.
However, "teh" is a common typo, hence the urban dictionary entry. And it is a typo I often make. I would like spellchecker to actually fix this typo. But for some reason my Mac thinks it's an actual word.
No, "teh" has not been added to the user dictionary -- (users/[acct]/Library/Spelling) -- I've checked.
However, every time "teh" occurs, there's no correction to the misspelling and using control-click doesn't present the standard correction options. I'm only presented with "look up teh".
This is annoying.
Is there a way to add a word to the spell checker in OS 10.10.5? Or to remove "teh" from the dictionary look up?
Or in more general terms..
Can the OSX dictionary be edited? I know words can be added, but can apparently existing "bad" words in the core dictionary be changed?
Can the MacOS Spell Checker be set to contain a specific correction based upon a user's common error?
Scott
Posted 2016-09-02T04:20:45.770
Reputation: 210
'teh' gets auto-corrected for me; which would make me think you've overridden it at some time in the past & it now accepts it as a word, [not that I actually know how to answer your question, sorry] – Tetsujin – 2016-09-02T06:35:55.077
I would suspect that @Tetsujin In fact, I did. And figured I'd just have to live with it until my next clean install. But examining the user dictionary, it's not there. And I just did a clean install of OS10.10.5 this morning. 100% certain I haven't added "teh" as "approved" back to anything. – Scott – 2016-09-02T07:25:04.323
I thought there was the remote possibility it had been added to the system dictionary between Yosemite & El Capitan, but I just checked a Yosemite VM & it still auto-corrects there too. – Tetsujin – 2016-09-02T07:52:52.323
hmm.. curious... – Scott – 2016-09-02T07:54:27.333