Plural possessive apostrophes not recognised as correct

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Plural possessive apostrophes not recognised as correct #40

Closed jrawle closed 4 years ago

jrawle commented 5 years ago

I use the British English Dictionary in Firefox. I have noticed that when I place an apostrophe after a plural, this is marked as an error. The alternatives offered are the plural or the singular possessive.

For example, in a sentence such as: "The owners' cars can be parked on the houses' drives."

"owners'" and "houses'" are underlined as mistakes. It offers "owners" or "owner's", etc.

I have been using British dictionaries in Firefox for many years, and not noticed this before. Please can it be corrected?

Many thanks.

marcoagpinto commented 5 years ago

Hello!

Thank you for spotting this.

I believe Mozilla must have changed the Hunspell language engine and it is causing this.

I have opened a ticket in Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1569033

I have tried your sentence in Thunderbird, and there it works well, so it is a Firefox issue.

Let us wait to see what Mozilla says about the issue.

Thank you for the report.

marcoagpinto commented 4 years ago

Hello!

Can you confirm if the issue is solved?

Thanks!

jrawle commented 4 years ago

If appears to be working correctly in Firefox 69. Thanks!

marcoagpinto commented 4 years ago

Hey!

Good to know!

Kind regards,