by Jared Goralnick
…or at least it felt that way. You see, I pride myself on having a fairly extensive vocabulary, which occasionally leads to my being pleonastic or pedantic…but nonetheless I’ve always enjoyed richness in words (such as that discussed in the Word Nerds podcast). Anyhow, today I came across a flattering dialog box in Microsoft Word:
For thirty seconds I considered the possibility that Word was not in err and that I had in fact exceeded its capacity for vocabulary.
In actuality, it’s possible to run out of space using Word’s custom dictionary, which is capped at 64kb (around 10,000 words). However, the more likely scenario was that my spelling/grammar tool was corrupt. Sure enough, after following the steps outlined in this informative help-desk article, all was once again copacetic…
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