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<h3 class="section">6.3 Notes on Storing Replacement Pairs</h3>
<p>The <code>store_repl</code> method and the <code>$$ra</code> should be used
because Aspell is able to learn from users misspellings. For example
on the first pass a user misspells <em>beginning</em> as <em>beging</em>
so Aspell suggests:
<pre class="example"> begging, begin, being, Beijing, bagging, ....
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<p class="noindent">However the user then tries <em>begning</em> and Aspell suggests
<pre class="example"> beginning, beaning, begging, ...
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<p class="noindent">so the user selects <em>beginning</em>. However, later on in the
document the user misspells it as <em>begng</em> (<strong>not</strong>
<em>beging</em>). Normally Aspell will suggest.
<pre class="example"> began, begging, begin, begun, ...
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<p class="noindent">However because it knows the user misspelled <em>beginning</em> as
<em>beging</em> it will instead suggest:
<pre class="example"> beginning, began, begging, begin, begun ...
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<p>I myself often misspelled beginning (and still do) as something close
to begging and too many times wind up writing sentences such as
"begging with <small class="dots">...</small>".
<p>Please also note that replacements commands have a memory. Which means
if you first store the replacement pair:
<pre class="example"> sicolagest -> psycolagest
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<p class="noindent">then store the replacement pair
<pre class="example"> psycolagest -> psychologist
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<p class="noindent">The replacement pair
<pre class="example"> sicolagest -> psychologist
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<p class="noindent">will also get stored so that you don't have to worry about it.
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