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Jiří Polášek b7eed480ba Spellchecking: Update spell-checking dictionary (#42294)
## Summary of the Pull Request

This PR updates the spell-checking dictionaries to fix outstanding
errors, and also clears up accumulated warnings.

- Cleans up duplicate or ignored entries in expect.txt:
    - `Authenticode` (favoring existing `authenticode`)
    - `DTo` (favoring existing `dto`)
    - `ekus` (favoring existing `eku`)
    - `nullrefs` (favoring existing `nullref`)
- Removes `CursorWrap` (invalid entry since camel case is treated as
separate words and is not allowed)
- Updates the pattern for `amazon.com` URLs to allow them within C#
strings
- Explicitly excludes the CmdPal sample page for images in Markdown with
Base64 encoded data from spell-checking (was previously auto-excluded)
- Suppresses spell-checking on lines with URLs containing encoded data

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check-spelling/check-spelling configuration

File Purpose Format Info
allow.txt Add words to the dictionary one word per line (only letters and 's allowed) allow
reject.txt Remove words from the dictionary (after allow) grep pattern matching whole dictionary words reject
excludes.txt Files to ignore entirely perl regular expression excludes
only.txt Only check matching files (applied after excludes) perl regular expression only
patterns.txt Patterns to ignore from checked lines perl regular expression (order matters, first match wins) patterns
candidate.patterns Patterns that might be worth adding to patterns.txt perl regular expression with optional comment block introductions (all matches will be suggested) candidates
line_forbidden.patterns Patterns to flag in checked lines perl regular expression (order matters, first match wins) patterns
expect.txt Expected words that aren't in the dictionary one word per line (sorted, alphabetically) expect
advice.md Supplement for GitHub comment when unrecognized words are found GitHub Markdown advice

Note: you can replace any of these files with a directory by the same name (minus the suffix) and then include multiple files inside that directory (with that suffix) to merge multiple files together.