Spanish spelling dictionary
===========================

The word list in `es.dic.gz` and the suggestion directives in `es.aff` are
derived from the **generic** Spanish Hunspell dictionary published by the RLA-ES
project ("Recursos Lingüísticos Abiertos del Español"), release v2.9.

    Copyright (C) Santiago Bosio and the RLA-ES contributors

    License: GPL-3+ or LGPL-3+ or MPL-1.1+
             Tri-licensed; you may choose freely among the three. Petal
             redistributes under the MPL. Full texts:
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             https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.en.html
             https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/1.1/

Upstream: https://github.com/sbosio/rla-es
Source:   https://github.com/sbosio/rla-es/releases/download/v2.9/es.oxt
          (an .oxt is a zip; es.aff and es.dic are at its root)

Not the Debian package, and that is the point
---------------------------------------------
`hunspell-es` looks like the obvious source and is the wrong one. It installs
twenty country codes — `es_AR` through `es_VE` — all symlinked to a single file,
which reads like "one pan-Hispanic dictionary". It is not. RLA publishes
twenty-four dictionaries per release: one per country, plus a **generic `es`**
that is the union of all of them, and Debian ships the **peninsular `es_ES`**
build under the collapsed name.

Measured against v2.9, expanded to surface forms:

    Debian hunspell-es      659,085 forms      voseo: no    vosotros: yes
    upstream es_ES          659,018 forms      voseo: no    vosotros: yes
    upstream es_MX          554,923 forms      voseo: no    vosotros: no
    upstream es_AR          669,605 forms      voseo: yes   vosotros: yes
    upstream es (generic)   717,640 forms      voseo: yes   vosotros: yes   <-- this

The 58,622-form gap between Debian's file and the generic one is essentially the
**voseo** paradigm — `vení`, `tenés`, `querés`, `sabés`, `andá` — the ordinary
present tense of Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and much of Central America. Under
the Debian package, a writer using it would have had her own verbs underlined as
misspellings.

Why the generic build rather than one country
---------------------------------------------
The only thing this dictionary can do is underline something. *Tienes* and
*tenés* are both correct Spanish, taught in different countries, and a writing
companion has no business marking one of them wrong — the same reasoning that
makes the French dictionary here the `-comprehensive` packaging rather than
`-classical` or `-revised`. The generic build accepts every variety, so Petal
underlines only what no Spanish speaker anywhere would write.

How the build proves it got this file
-------------------------------------
Vocabulary cannot tell these builds apart: *every* RLA variant carries the full
pan-Hispanic lexicon, so *computadora* alongside *ordenador* passes on the
peninsular file too. (The `REP` table is likewise no evidence — its `ll`/`y` and
`ás`/`az` entries look like yeísmo and seseo but are shared by all builds.) Only
the verb paradigms are localised, so the `es` profile in
`scripts/build_hunspell_dictionary.py` demands, all at once:

  * **voseo** (`vení`, `tenés`, `querés`) — rejects `es_ES` and Debian's package;
  * **vosotros** (`tenéis`, `escribid`) — rejects `es_MX`;
  * **another region's everyday words** (`arepa`, `chévere`, `bacán`) — rejects
    `es_AR`, which has both paradigms and would otherwise pass.

Only the generic build satisfies all three. Each of the four neighbouring builds
was run through the profile and confirmed to fail.