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Or, until Microsoft (and other operating system vendors) implement this, applications - at least, open source applications like those listed above - should make their user dictionaries accessible to each other.

They should exist at operating-system level, or more specifically, at user-account level. User dictionaries should not be in a “walled garden” within an application. Under the “DRY” (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle, a user should not have to accept a word’s spelling more than once. I have just had to add several words to the user dictionary for the spell-checker in Notepad++, that I have already added to my user dictionary in LibreOffice, and to my user dictionary in Firefox (all under Windows 10 – does this happen with user dictionaries under Unix & Mac operating systems?).

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