So in this case, start with "Hor" , then once your choices come up, can you add the "se". The other fail-safe here is to expand the box so that the different checklists come into sight.

On a slightly unrelated note, we've stopped using the 'Preferred Checklist' option due to these common name/synonym errors.

This and a few other refinements have made it into the 2nd edtion of our manual. Eg, using Google to correct or narrrow down spelling errors by the orginal recorder, then put that entry through the search tools (or perhaps the NHM http://nbn.nhm.ac.uk/nhm/bin/nbntax … h?st=basic search site to find out which list it's in).

Ye get the idea.

I'd suggest a few of solutions to this problem:

1. Parse punctuation and spaces as equal, so that "horse chestnut" and "horse-chestnut" are interpreted as the same string and thus we get prompted to select the horse chestnut we really mean.

2. Always prompt, even though there is only one possible choice.

What do others think? Any other simpler solutions (such as adding "horse-chestnut" as a synonym of "horse chestnut"? Would that work?)

Charles