Automated spell analysis

A method of analyzing linguistic terms, the method comprising:

• (a) browsing a plurality of web sites on the Internet in response to user input;
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• (b) concurrently with browsing the plurality of web sites, tracking relative occurrences of a plurality of variants of a linguistic term found in the plurality of web sites to determine an acceptable usage of the linguistic term.

An apparatus, comprising:

• (a) a memory;
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• (b) a program resident in the memory and configured to determine an acceptable usage of a linguistic term by scanning a plurality of documents for variants of the linguistic term and tracking relative occurrences of a plurality of variants of the linguistic term found in the plurality of documents during scanning .

A program product, comprising:

• (a) a program configured to determine an acceptable usage of a linguistic term by scanning a plurality of documents for variants of the linguistic term and tracking relative occurrences of a plurality of variants of the linguistic term found in the plurality of documents during scanning;
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• (b) a computer-readable signal bearing medium bearing the program.

A program product, comprising:

• (a) a document, the document including a tag that identifies an acceptable variant of a linguistic term and a definition of the linguistic term;
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• (b) a computer-readable signal bearing medium bearing the document.

A method of spell checking a document, the method comprising:

• (a) comparing terms in a first document against an electronic dictionary;
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• (b) in response to determining during the comparison that a term from the document is not in the electronic dictionary, automatically scanning a plurality of documents from the Internet to identify at least one acceptable usage of the term.

A method of managing an electronic dictionary, the method comprising:

• (a) detecting a spell definition tag within a document retrieved from the Internet that identifies an acceptable variant of a linguistic term;
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• (b) in response to detecting the spell definition tag, automatically adding the acceptable variant of the linguistic term to an electronic dictionary.