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Why is the word and holiday Christmas no longer in the Firefox dictionary, and why did I have to add it myself?

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Alliey5279
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When I typed in Christmas, it was underlined in red. Which means that it wasn't in the dictionary. When I right-clicked on it, there were no spelling suggestions and I had to add it to the dictionary myself. Christmas is a word and as far as I know, is in all of the paper dictionaries and probably in the encyclopedias. Christmas is also a Christian holiday, and these days has been turned into a pagan holiday, but most Americans celebrate Christmas. Why is it not automatically in the dictionary? Christ and Christian is in the dictionary but not Christmas. I'm confused, and I'm sure a whole lot of others are too. I know I am making a big deal out of what seems to be nothing, but I just thought that I would bring it to your attention.

When I typed in Christmas, it was underlined in red. Which means that it wasn't in the dictionary. When I right-clicked on it, there were no spelling suggestions and I had to add it to the dictionary myself. Christmas is a word and as far as I know, is in all of the paper dictionaries and probably in the encyclopedias. Christmas is also a Christian holiday, and these days has been turned into a pagan holiday, but most Americans celebrate Christmas. Why is it not automatically in the dictionary? Christ and Christian is in the dictionary but not Christmas. I'm confused, and I'm sure a whole lot of others are too. I know I am making a big deal out of what seems to be nothing, but I just thought that I would bring it to your attention.

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philipp
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hello Alliey5279, I've tried it with both the British and the US version of the English dictionaries available from https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/language-tools/ and wasn't able to reproduce the issue as you've described with either of those...

cor-el
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Do you have a dictionary installed and selected?

You can see which dictionary is selected if you right-click in a text area and open the Languages submenu.
At least one dictionary should be installed and have a check mark to indicate that it is selected.

  • Open the "Add Dictionaries" link to install a dictionary if you do not have one.
  • Make sure that [X] "Check Spelling" in the right-click context menu is check-marked.

You can enable or disable spell checking globally:

  • Tools > Options > Advanced : General: Browsing: "Check my spelling as I type"

Current Firefox versions hide Check Spelling in the right-click context menu of a text area if the web page disables the spelling check via a spellcheck="false" attribute of this element.
You can right-click in the text editor area and use "Inspect Element" to see if this text area has a spellcheck="false" attribute.
Removing this spellcheck="false" attribute by selecting it via a double-click and using the Delete or Backspace key should make the Check Spelling item in the right-click context menu reappear.

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