Has anyone on the list researched adding a spell-checking to FB
applications?

Presumably, if the text to be spell checked is in an FB edit field, first a
list of words must be extracted from the edit field, second a list of unique
words must be extracted from the first list and third the list of unique
words must be compared to a dictionary.

The tricky parts would be (a) constructing a useful/comprehensive dictionary
(list of correctly-spelled english words) and (b) optimizing the three steps
above for speed...

Would I be correct in defining words (in a handle, for example,) as a
sequence of characters ending with (but not including) a space, except for
the last word which would end at the end of the handle. Punctuation
characters at the end of a word would be filtered out...?

Am I correct in suspecting that a useful 'conversational American English'
dictionary would not be that big (less than 32,000 'words')...?

Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated...

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