# Warnings about spelling

**URL:** https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/warnings-about-spelling/5366
**Category:** Meta
**Created:** [March 9, 2023, 9:50pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/warnings-about-spelling/5366 "2023-03-09T21:50:09Z")
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### Author: ![Harper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5ac83/32.png) [@Harper](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/Harper)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2023, 9:50pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/warnings-about-spelling/5366/1 "2023-03-09T21:50:10Z")

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When I am composing an item for fortran-lang I often see words with a wiggly red underline warning me that they may be spelt wrongly. But I was surprised to see allocatable underlined. Indeed the word is not in the Oxford English Dictionary, but it is in Webster’s, and it has been a technical term in Fortran for decades. Curiously, the word allocable is in OED meaning the same thing but it is also red-underlined.

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### Author: ![vmagnin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/vmagnin/32/28_2.png) [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2023, 8:57am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/warnings-about-spelling/5366/2 "2023-03-10T08:57:08Z")

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In Firefox, I can add the red underlined words in the dictionary used by the browser (with a right click on the word).