Hungarian spellcheckers

The peculiar complexities of the Hungarian language presented a unique challenge to spell checker programmers in the early days of computer programming. == Background == In the early decades of computer technology, creating spell-checking programs for some languages – such as Hungarian – encountered particular difficulties: The English language usually has just two alphabetical variants of a word (its singular and plural forms), so a spellchecker with a database of 50,000 words need only recognise 100,000 words.

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Hungarian spellcheckers

The peculiar complexities of the Hungarian language presented a unique challenge to spell checker programmers in the early days of computer programming. == Background == In the early decades of computer technology, creating spell-checking programs for some languages – such as Hungarian – encountered particular difficulties: The English language usually has just two alphabetical variants of a word (its singular and plural forms), so a spellchecker with a database of 50,000 words need only recognise 100,000 words.

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