Harry Potter and the Spell Checking

I always knew the enchant library took its name from spell, but only today I discovered its name is also related to the wizard:

What’s in a Name?

“Enchant”’s English definition is roughly “to cast a spell” — whose meaning seemed to fit in well with a spelling-oriented framework. Add to that the fact that I wrote most of this this on a lonely Sunday morning while my gf was engrossed with “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, and you can see where I got its name ;-)

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    1. Leonardo Fontenelle » Blog Archive » AbiWord + CoGrOO = Google Summer of Code disse:
      12 de agosto de 2007 às 23:33

      [...] to use any grammar checker. The project is oriented by Dom Lachowicz, AbiWord and enchant (see the nome origin) developer. If everything goes well, we could have a grammar checking library, available for any [...]

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