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Recently I became a huge fan of Google Docs despite all the deficiencies, but there's one thing that really repels me from writing anything in language other than English, namely poor spell checker. It does not recognize about 10-20% of words in Polish and quite a few French words too which is quite a big number I should say. Have been looking for chrome extension that could do the job instead but have found nothing at all. Is there any way I could extend Google Docs (or get a Chrome Extension) dictionary with a few other dictionaries rather than adding not recognized words on a one by one basis?

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Have you been adding the words to your dictionary? I'd expect after not too long a time you would cover just about all of the words you use. – Al Everett Apr 24 '12 at 18:58
I probably would be better off changing the header from Polish to Non English. – matcheek Apr 25 '12 at 8:47
I understand that the spell checker in Google Docs is based on the dictionary built from indexing the web. (You know, the magic that happens when you misspell a word in your search term.) I'm guessing that languages that aren't as well-represented as English will not have as-complete dictionaries. – Al Everett Apr 25 '12 at 13:11
@Al Everett, Could understand that, but I'm not talking about sophisticated Natural Language Processing tools. I'm talking about the very basic dictionary that every spell checker has. I downloaded a polish dictionary for vim and it works just perfect. It seems to me that Google Docs spell checker is over-engineered. – matcheek Apr 25 '12 at 13:34
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As it seems, for now, Google Docs only provides spellcheck for English - although one can choose the language of the document. Which is massively lame. – pax Oct 11 '12 at 11:25

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