My kids think it's quite a lark to add goofy words to the spelling dictionary in Microsoft Word on my MacBook Pro, which I don't mind except now I find that some of the words that I commonly misspell aren't be flagged as misspelled either. Not good. How can I clean up Microsoft Word on my Mac so that it doesn't have bogus words?...

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I've got a bet with my husband and you need to help us settle it. I was reading Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and he said "I bet you $20 that "pride" shows up more than "prejudice" in that book." I think he's wrong, but have no idea how to figure it out. Can you help?...

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