Dictionary entries and `'s`

[ylub]

Describe the bug
When a proper noun is added to the dictionary, it still flags the word as spelling error when 's is added to the word.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Add word to dictionary
2. Find instance of word modified with "'s"
3. See error

Expected behavior
I assumed that a word added to the dictionary would be recognized even with the "'s"

Platform
I saw it occur in Obsidian - I did not yet get the cli to display correctly in iterm for me so I cannot yet confirm that.
I have the latest versions of MacOS, obsidian, and Harper (from brew)

Additional context
Looking forward to using Harper more!

[hippietrail]

The User Dictionary is just a bare list of words. Unlike the Curated Dictionary, it does not have annotations for parts of speech, inflections, or derivations so it doesn't know which words need possessive forms, plural forms, etc. It doesn't know which words are proper nouns, common nouns, or even nouns at all.

[ylub]

I understand that it is just like an ignore list of sorts - would this be something to look into for a future update?

[hippietrail]

I understand that it is just like an ignore list of sorts - would this be something to look into for a future update?

Unless I am missing something the closest I can think of is that the idea of being able to include Curated Dictionaries along with their annotations JSON files has been discussed, but I don't believe any development has taken place in that direction yet.

If you have a look at dictionary.dict and annotations.json You'll see that the annotation flags O and g would be relevant. So while the full set of annotations can get pretty tricky, just limiting to proper nouns and possessive is mostly not tricky. Except possibly for the case of names ending in "s" or proper nouns that can be pluralized, such as surnames, car brands, etc.

In a User Dictionary you'd have:

Homer
Homer's
Simpson
Simpsons
Simpson's

I'm not sure what happens if you included Simpsons' as I don't think there's specific support for plural possessives anywhere in Harper, probably because the ' character has multiple uses that can be ambiguous.

In a Curated Dictionary you'd have:

Homer/Og
Simpson/OgS

Where O just indicates that those are proper nouns, g generates the possessive form in the expanded dictionary and S generates the plural form the expanded dictionary. (User Dictionaries are always, manually, expanded.)