Re: [Aspell-user] Adding hyphenated words to private dictionaries

[Kevin Atkinson]

Art Smoot wrote:

> ..., but still the basic question is how do you
> get "co-counsel" into the dictionary? 
>
> Again: 
> aspell --lang=en create master aspell.dictionary < aspell-new-words
> Warning: The word "co-counsel" is invalid. The character '-' (U+2D) may not 
> appear in the middle of a word. Skipping word. 
> .......
> Art

You can force Aspell accept any word into a dictionary using the option 
"--dont-validate-words".  However, when using Aspell to check documents it 
will never recognize "co-counsel" as a single word.