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Hyphenation Sea and Grand

OK.. first my admission my OED is missing Vols VI, VII, and X so I couldn't check some other hyphenations. But for "grand-" used as a familial relation quantifier my OED has:

• Grand-aunt
• Grand-dad and granddad
• Grand-daughter
• Grandfather
• Grandmama
• Grandmother
• Grand-nephew
• Grand-niece
• Grandpapa
• Grandparent
• Grandpaternal
• Grandsire
• Grandson
• Grand-uncle

For "sea" words where the idea of sea is part of the meaning, over 36 pages all compound words (mainly things like sea-fox) were hyphenated except where shown in the following list:

• Seafaring and seafarer but sea-fare
• Seaman
• Sealess
• Seamost
• Seaport (but example contains hyphen)
• Seaquake and sea-quake
• Seaside and sea-side
• Seaweed
• Seaworthiness (but example contains hyphen)
• Seaworthy

The following were split into two words

• Sea air
• Sea cucumber
• Sea legs
• Sea spider (but example contains hyphen)

This is, of course, not to say that other presentations of these words are wrong.

Rgds, Rich Farmbrough, 14:40 26 August 2008 (GMT).

superintendants → superintendentts

I even missed this one, though fortunately someone else caught me before I found it in my contributions just a moment ago. {{Nihiltres|talk|log}} 05:17, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

BillFlis fixed the incorrect entry yesterday. Thanks Rjwilmsi 11:15, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Complaints to Compliants

Could someone fix this? Thanks, I wish I could but I am an utter newb at regex. Blame the actual edit on me being half asleep. :P — neuro^(talk) 21:49, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

I fixed it yesterday. Thanks Rjwilmsi 07:03, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

How did this happen?

I really don't get this one --Closedmouth (talk) 07:21, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Now fixed.

BTW, do you have use the typoscan plugin? Try it if you don't (place the typoscan.dll next to autowikibrowser.exe then edit as normal and look at the typos tab) – for one thing you can then use it to report which regex is wrong. Thanks Rjwilmsi 07:54, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

I do use TypoScan, but I didn't even think of doing that. Silly me. --Closedmouth (talk) 11:04, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

disitributed -> dissitributed error

\b(D|d)isi([a-kmo-z]|m[a-nq-z])\B to $1issi$2 causes the error in the title. Don't know how to fix it. --Closedmouth (talk) 05:56, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

fixed by expanding "Distribute" to catch "disitribute-". Thanks Rjwilmsi 08:10, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Vertibrate to Vnvertebrate

Not sure what is causing this. — neuro^(talk) 00:09, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

I think I fixed it here. --Closedmouth (talk) 08:53, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Add ecspecailly -> especially

The "especially" regex is much too complicated for me. Diff. --Closedmouth (talk) 09:05, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

That should do it. Rjwilmsi 12:07, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Disimpaction to dissimpaction

The former is correct. — neuro^(talk) 11:57, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Fixed. Rjwilmsi 12:12, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Historical

AWB regularly tells me to change "an historical" to "a historical." Can this be fixed? --Andrew Kelly (talk) 04:14, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

First and only

Only things invariably are the first: the phrase has inexcusable redundancy and should read "only". But there are very occasional false positive - First and Only (book), "first (and only the first). Is this annoyance within the scope of AWB regexp magic? --Tagishsimon (talk) 23:43, 12 November 2008 (UTC)