Gammadyne Spell Checking Module Revision History

Version 5.0 (November 13th, 2023)

• Added support for 64-bit apps.
• Added 39,657 Spanish words.
• Suggestions: added support for accented letters.
• Fixed: accented upper case letters were causing false positives.

Version 4.4 (June 1st, 2023)

• Fixed: non-ASCII letters were not being treated as part of a word, which is a problem for Spanish.

Version 4.3 (June 30th, 2022)

• For Random Word Generator's Anagram Finder, this now deduplicates results that are the same words but in a different order (e.g. "and the", "the and").

Version 4.2 (August 3rd, 2021)

• The "total number of words added to dictionary" statistic is now recorded.
• Eliminated some 2 letter words that are not words and pollute the Anagram Finder.

Version 4.1 (November 27th, 2020)

• Digits inside or at the end of a word are now considered part of the word.
• The Spell Checker will now work on a USB drive if copied to the correct folder, such as x:\[app]\System-G\Speller
• Added many new English words.

Version 4.0 (July 20th, 2016)

• If a misspelled word has only the first character capitalized, so will all of the suggestions.
• When spell checking plain text, URL's are now skipped.
• Words with unicode letters are now treated as whole words.  Previously the non-unicode portions of the word would be separately spell checked.
• Added some new words.  Removed many rare words.
• Numerous improvements to the installer.
• Fixed: the suggestions were affected by the capitalization of the misspelled word.

Version 3.1 (October 1st, 2014)

• Added many new English words.
• Fixed: all of the American variant spellings were being included with British and Canadian.

Version 3.0 (October 7th, 2013)

• The Anagram Finder is now much faster.
• Added support for spell checking on 16-bit unicode characters.
• Added numerous Spanish words.
• The spell checker now opens faster.
• The spell checker can now report the total number of words in a language.
• Fixed: the words "11th", "12th", "13th" were being treated as misspelled.
• Fixed: the Anagram Finder was not correctly handling one letter words with Spanish.

Version 2.0 (March 22nd, 2012)

• Added Spanish.
• Fixed: after changing the language setting, the previous language's words were remaining in the dictionary.

Version 1.6 (May 4th, 2011)

• Updated the word list, including 22,000+ new words.

Version 1.5 (March 26th, 2011)

• Added a high resolution shell icon for Vista/2008/7.
• The "find words similar to misspelled word" feature will now produce a narrower selection of words.
• Words such as "1st", "22nd", "73rd", etc. are no longer treated as misspelled words.
• Improved the installer's appearance.

Version 1.4 (June 7th, 2009)

• Added support for Random Word Generator's "Whole Anagrams Only" option.
• Improved the performance of the Anagram Finder.

Version 1.3 (March 14th, 2009)

• Restored support for Windows 95.
• Speller.DLL is now digitally signed.
• Numerous improvements to the installer.

Version 1.2 (September 24th, 2008)

• The installer is now digitally signed.
• The installer will now attempt to grant full security rights to its installation directory.
• The installer will now delete Random Word Generator's dictionary word list cache files so that they are regenerated.
• Improved the icon.

Version 1.1 (June 10th, 2008)

• Added support for Random Word Generator's "Anagram" tool.

Version 1.0

• Original release, March 29th, 2004.