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1 This dictionary was initially based on a subset of the | |
2 original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for | |
3 Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original | |
4 LGPL licence. | |
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6 It has been extensively updated by David Bartlett, Brian Kelk | |
7 and Andrew Brown: | |
8 - numerous Americanism have been removed | |
9 - numerous American spellings have been corrected | |
10 - missing words have been added | |
11 - many errors have been corrected | |
12 - compound hyphenated words have been added where appropriate | |
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14 Valuable inputs to this process were received from many other | |
15 people - far too numerous to name. Serious thanks to you all | |
16 for your greatly appreciated help. | |
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18 This word list is intended to be a good representation of | |
19 current modern British English and thus it should be a good | |
20 basis for Commonwealth English in most countries of the world | |
21 outside North America. | |
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23 The affix file has been created completely from scratch | |
24 by David Bartlett and Andrew Brown, based on the published | |
25 rules for MySpell and is also provided under the LGPL. | |
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27 In creating the affix rules an attempt has been made to | |
28 reproduce the most general rules for English word | |
29 formation, rather than merely use it as a means to | |
30 compress the size of the dictionary. It is hoped that this | |
31 will facilitate future localisation to other variants of | |
32 English. | |
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34 Please let David Bartlett <dwb@openoffice.org> know of any | |
35 errors that you find. | |
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37 The current release is R 1.18, 11/04/05 | |
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