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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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