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| 1 This dictionary was initially based on a subset of the | 1 en_GB-ise Hunspell Dictionary |
| 2 original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for | 2 Version 2016.01.19 |
| 3 Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original | 3 Tue Jan 19 17:07:49 2016 -0500 [a535654] |
| 4 LGPL licence. | 4 http://wordlist.sourceforge.net |
| 5 | 5 |
| 6 It has been extensively updated by David Bartlett, Brian Kelk | 6 README file for English Hunspell dictionaries derived from SCOWL. |
| 7 and Andrew Brown: | 7 |
| 8 - numerous Americanism have been removed | 8 These dictionaries are created using the speller/make-hunspell-dict |
| 9 - numerous American spellings have been corrected | 9 script in SCOWL. |
| 10 - missing words have been added | 10 |
| 11 - many errors have been corrected | 11 The following dictionaries are available: |
| 12 - compound hyphenated words have been added where appropriate | 12 |
| 13 | 13 en_US (American) |
| 14 Valuable inputs to this process were received from many other | 14 en_CA (Canadian) |
| 15 people - far too numerous to name. Serious thanks to you all | 15 en_GB-ise (British with "ise" spelling) |
| 16 for your greatly appreciated help. | 16 en_GB-ize (British with "ize" spelling) |
| 17 | 17 |
| 18 This word list is intended to be a good representation of | 18 en_US-large |
| 19 current modern British English and thus it should be a good | 19 en_CA-large |
| 20 basis for Commonwealth English in most countries of the world | 20 en_GB-large (with both "ise" and "ize" spelling) |
| 21 outside North America. | 21 |
| 22 | 22 The normal (non-large) dictionaries correspond to SCOWL size 60 and, |
| 23 The affix file has been created completely from scratch | 23 to encourage consistent spelling, generally only include one spelling |
| 24 by David Bartlett and Andrew Brown, based on the published | 24 variant for a word. The large dictionaries correspond to SCOWL size |
| 25 rules for MySpell and is also provided under the LGPL. | 25 70 and may include multiple spelling for a word when both variants are |
| 26 | 26 considered almost equal. The larger dictionaries however (1) have not |
| 27 In creating the affix rules an attempt has been made to | 27 been as carefully checked for errors as the normal dictionaries and |
| 28 reproduce the most general rules for English word | 28 thus may contain misspelled or invalid words; and (2) contain |
| 29 formation, rather than merely use it as a means to | 29 uncommon, yet valid, words that might cause problems as they are |
| 30 compress the size of the dictionary. It is hoped that this | 30 likely to be misspellings of more common words (for example, "ort" and |
| 31 will facilitate future localisation to other variants of | 31 "calender"). |
| 32 English. | 32 |
| 33 | 33 To get an idea of the difference in size, here are 25 random words |
| 34 Please let David Bartlett <dwb@openoffice.org> know of any | 34 only found in the large dictionary for American English: |
| 35 errors that you find. | 35 |
| 36 | 36 Bermejo Freyr's Guenevere Hatshepsut Nottinghamshire arrestment |
| 37 The current release is R 1.18, 11/04/05 | 37 crassitudes crural dogwatches errorless fetial flaxseeds godroon |
| 38 incretion jalapeño's kelpie kishkes neuroglias pietisms pullulation |
| 39 stemwinder stenoses syce thalassic zees |
| 40 |
| 41 The en_US and en_CA are the official dictionaries for Hunspell. The |
| 42 en_GB and large dictionaries are made available on an experimental |
| 43 basis. If you find them useful please send me a quick email at |
| 44 kevina@gnu.org. |
| 45 |
| 46 If none of these dictionaries suite you (for example, maybe you want |
| 47 the normal dictionary that also includes common variants) additional |
| 48 dictionaries can be generated at http://app.aspell.net/create or by |
| 49 modifying speller/make-hunspell-dict in SCOWL. Please do let me know |
| 50 if you end up publishing a customized dictionary. |
| 51 |
| 52 If a word is not found in the dictionary or a word is there you think |
| 53 shouldn't be, you can lookup the word up at http://app.aspell.net/lookup |
| 54 to help determine why that is. |
| 55 |
| 56 General comments on these list can be sent directly to me at |
| 57 kevina@gnu.org or to the wordlist-devel mailing lists |
| 58 (https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wordlist-devel). If you |
| 59 have specific issues with any of these dictionaries please file a bug |
| 60 report at https://github.com/kevina/wordlist/issues. |
| 61 |
| 62 IMPORTANT CHANGES INTRODUCED IN 2015.04.24: |
| 63 |
| 64 The dictionaries are now in UTF-8 format instead of ISO-8859-1. This |
| 65 was required to handle smart quotes correctly. |
| 66 |
| 67 IMPORTANT CHANGES INTRODUCED IN 2016.01.19: |
| 68 |
| 69 "SET UTF8" was changes to "SET UTF-8" in the affix file as some |
| 70 versions of Hunspell do not recognize "UTF8". |
| 71 |
| 72 ADDITIONAL NOTES: |
| 73 |
| 74 The NOSUGGEST flag was added to certain taboo words. While I made an |
| 75 honest attempt to flag the strongest taboo words with the NOSUGGEST |
| 76 flag, I MAKE NO GUARANTEE THAT I FLAGGED EVERY POSSIBLE TABOO WORD. |
| 77 The list was originally derived from Németh László, however I removed |
| 78 some words which, while being considered taboo by some dictionaries, |
| 79 are not really considered swear words in today's society. |
| 80 |
| 81 COPYRIGHT, SOURCES, and CREDITS: |
| 82 |
| 83 The English dictionaries come directly from SCOWL |
| 84 and is thus under the same copyright of SCOWL. The affix file is |
| 85 a heavily modified version of the original english.aff file which was |
| 86 released as part of Geoff Kuenning's Ispell and as such is covered by |
| 87 his BSD license. Part of SCOWL is also based on Ispell thus the |
| 88 Ispell copyright is included with the SCOWL copyright. |
| 89 |
| 90 The collective work is Copyright 2000-2015 by Kevin Atkinson as well |
| 91 as any of the copyrights mentioned below: |
| 92 |
| 93 Copyright 2000-2015 by Kevin Atkinson |
| 94 |
| 95 Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell these word |
| 96 lists, the associated scripts, the output created from the scripts, |
| 97 and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, |
| 98 provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and |
| 99 that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in |
| 100 supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations |
| 101 about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided |
| 102 "as is" without express or implied warranty. |
| 103 |
| 104 Alan Beale <biljir@pobox.com> also deserves special credit as he has, |
| 105 in addition to providing the 12Dicts package and being a major |
| 106 contributor to the ENABLE word list, given me an incredible amount of |
| 107 feedback and created a number of special lists (those found in the |
| 108 Supplement) in order to help improve the overall quality of SCOWL. |
| 109 |
| 110 The 10 level includes the 1000 most common English words (according to |
| 111 the Moby (TM) Words II [MWords] package), a subset of the 1000 most |
| 112 common words on the Internet (again, according to Moby Words II), and |
| 113 frequently class 16 from Brian Kelk's "UK English Wordlist |
| 114 with Frequency Classification". |
| 115 |
| 116 The MWords package was explicitly placed in the public domain: |
| 117 |
| 118 The Moby lexicon project is complete and has |
| 119 been place into the public domain. Use, sell, |
| 120 rework, excerpt and use in any way on any platform. |
| 121 |
| 122 Placing this material on internal or public servers is |
| 123 also encouraged. The compiler is not aware of any |
| 124 export restrictions so freely distribute world-wide. |
| 125 |
| 126 You can verify the public domain status by contacting |
| 127 |
| 128 Grady Ward |
| 129 3449 Martha Ct. |
| 130 Arcata, CA 95521-4884 |
| 131 |
| 132 grady@netcom.com |
| 133 grady@northcoast.com |
| 134 |
| 135 The "UK English Wordlist With Frequency Classification" is also in the |
| 136 Public Domain: |
| 137 |
| 138 Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 20:27:21 +0100 |
| 139 From: Brian Kelk <Brian.Kelk@cl.cam.ac.uk> |
| 140 |
| 141 > I was wondering what the copyright status of your "UK English |
| 142 > Wordlist With Frequency Classification" word list as it seems to |
| 143 > be lacking any copyright notice. |
| 144 |
| 145 There were many many sources in total, but any text marked |
| 146 "copyright" was avoided. Locally-written documentation was one |
| 147 source. An earlier version of the list resided in a filespace called |
| 148 PUBLIC on the University mainframe, because it was considered public |
| 149 domain. |
| 150 |
| 151 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:31:34 +0100 |
| 152 |
| 153 > So are you saying your word list is also in the public domain? |
| 154 |
| 155 That is the intention. |
| 156 |
| 157 The 20 level includes frequency classes 7-15 from Brian's word list. |
| 158 |
| 159 The 35 level includes frequency classes 2-6 and words appearing in at |
| 160 least 11 of 12 dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts package. All |
| 161 words from the 12Dicts package have had likely inflections added via |
| 162 my inflection database. |
| 163 |
| 164 The 12Dicts package and Supplement is in the Public Domain. |
| 165 |
| 166 The WordNet database, which was used in the creation of the |
| 167 Inflections database, is under the following copyright: |
| 168 |
| 169 This software and database is being provided to you, the LICENSEE, |
| 170 by Princeton University under the following license. By obtaining, |
| 171 using and/or copying this software and database, you agree that you |
| 172 have read, understood, and will comply with these terms and |
| 173 conditions.: |
| 174 |
| 175 Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and |
| 176 database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or |
| 177 royalty is hereby granted, provided that you agree to comply with |
| 178 the following copyright notice and statements, including the |
| 179 disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software, |
| 180 database and documentation, including modifications that you make |
| 181 for internal use or for distribution. |
| 182 |
| 183 WordNet 1.6 Copyright 1997 by Princeton University. All rights |
| 184 reserved. |
| 185 |
| 186 THIS SOFTWARE AND DATABASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND PRINCETON |
| 187 UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR |
| 188 IMPLIED. BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, BUT NOT LIMITATION, PRINCETON |
| 189 UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT- |
| 190 ABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF THE |
| 191 LICENSED SOFTWARE, DATABASE OR DOCUMENTATION WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY |
| 192 THIRD PARTY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS OR OTHER RIGHTS. |
| 193 |
| 194 The name of Princeton University or Princeton may not be used in |
| 195 advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software |
| 196 and/or database. Title to copyright in this software, database and |
| 197 any associated documentation shall at all times remain with |
| 198 Princeton University and LICENSEE agrees to preserve same. |
| 199 |
| 200 The 40 level includes words from Alan's 3esl list found in version 4.0 |
| 201 of his 12dicts package. Like his other stuff the 3esl list is also in the |
| 202 public domain. |
| 203 |
| 204 The 50 level includes Brian's frequency class 1, words appearing |
| 205 in at least 5 of 12 of the dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts |
| 206 package, and uppercase words in at least 4 of the previous 12 |
| 207 dictionaries. A decent number of proper names is also included: The |
| 208 top 1000 male, female, and Last names from the 1990 Census report; a |
| 209 list of names sent to me by Alan Beale; and a few names that I added |
| 210 myself. Finally a small list of abbreviations not commonly found in |
| 211 other word lists is included. |
| 212 |
| 213 The name files form the Census report is a government document which I |
| 214 don't think can be copyrighted. |
| 215 |
| 216 The file special-jargon.50 uses common.lst and word.lst from the |
| 217 "Unofficial Jargon File Word Lists" which is derived from "The Jargon |
| 218 File". All of which is in the Public Domain. This file also contain |
| 219 a few extra UNIX terms which are found in the file "unix-terms" in the |
| 220 special/ directory. |
| 221 |
| 222 The 55 level includes words from Alan's 2of4brif list found in version |
| 223 4.0 of his 12dicts package. Like his other stuff the 2of4brif is also |
| 224 in the public domain. |
| 225 |
| 226 The 60 level includes all words appearing in at least 2 of the 12 |
| 227 dictionaries as indicated by the 12Dicts package. |
| 228 |
| 229 The 70 level includes Brian's frequency class 0 and the 74,550 common |
| 230 dictionary words from the MWords package. The common dictionary words, |
| 231 like those from the 12Dicts package, have had all likely inflections |
| 232 added. The 70 level also included the 5desk list from version 4.0 of |
| 233 the 12Dics package which is in the public domain. |
| 234 |
| 235 The 80 level includes the ENABLE word list, all the lists in the |
| 236 ENABLE supplement package (except for ABLE), the "UK Advanced Cryptics |
| 237 Dictionary" (UKACD), the list of signature words from the YAWL package, |
| 238 and the 10,196 places list from the MWords package. |
| 239 |
| 240 The ENABLE package, mainted by M\Cooper <thegrendel@theriver.com>, |
| 241 is in the Public Domain: |
| 242 |
| 243 The ENABLE master word list, WORD.LST, is herewith formally released |
| 244 into the Public Domain. Anyone is free to use it or distribute it in |
| 245 any manner they see fit. No fee or registration is required for its |
| 246 use nor are "contributions" solicited (if you feel you absolutely |
| 247 must contribute something for your own peace of mind, the authors of |
| 248 the ENABLE list ask that you make a donation on their behalf to your |
| 249 favorite charity). This word list is our gift to the Scrabble |
| 250 community, as an alternate to "official" word lists. Game designers |
| 251 may feel free to incorporate the WORD.LST into their games. Please |
| 252 mention the source and credit us as originators of the list. Note |
| 253 that if you, as a game designer, use the WORD.LST in your product, |
| 254 you may still copyright and protect your product, but you may *not* |
| 255 legally copyright or in any way restrict redistribution of the |
| 256 WORD.LST portion of your product. This *may* under law restrict your |
| 257 rights to restrict your users' rights, but that is only fair. |
| 258 |
| 259 UKACD, by J Ross Beresford <ross@bryson.demon.co.uk>, is under the |
| 260 following copyright: |
| 261 |
| 262 Copyright (c) J Ross Beresford 1993-1999. All Rights Reserved. |
| 263 |
| 264 The following restriction is placed on the use of this publication: |
| 265 if The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary is used in a software package |
| 266 or redistributed in any form, the copyright notice must be |
| 267 prominently displayed and the text of this document must be included |
| 268 verbatim. |
| 269 |
| 270 There are no other restrictions: I would like to see the list |
| 271 distributed as widely as possible. |
| 272 |
| 273 The 95 level includes the 354,984 single words, 256,772 compound |
| 274 words, 4,946 female names and the 3,897 male names, and 21,986 names |
| 275 from the MWords package, ABLE.LST from the ENABLE Supplement, and some |
| 276 additional words found in my part-of-speech database that were not |
| 277 found anywhere else. |
| 278 |
| 279 Accent information was taken from UKACD. |
| 280 |
| 281 My VARCON package was used to create the American, British, and |
| 282 Canadian word list. |
| 283 |
| 284 Since the original word lists used in the VARCON package came |
| 285 from the Ispell distribution they are under the Ispell copyright: |
| 286 |
| 287 Copyright 1993, Geoff Kuenning, Granada Hills, CA |
| 288 All rights reserved. |
| 289 |
| 290 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without |
| 291 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions |
| 292 are met: |
| 293 |
| 294 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright |
| 295 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. |
| 296 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright |
| 297 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the |
| 298 documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. |
| 299 3. All modifications to the source code must be clearly marked as |
| 300 such. Binary redistributions based on modified source code |
| 301 must be clearly marked as modified versions in the documentation |
| 302 and/or other materials provided with the distribution. |
| 303 (clause 4 removed with permission from Geoff Kuenning) |
| 304 5. The name of Geoff Kuenning may not be used to endorse or promote |
| 305 products derived from this software without specific prior |
| 306 written permission. |
| 307 |
| 308 THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY GEOFF KUENNING AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS |
| 309 IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT |
| 310 LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS |
| 311 FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL GEOFF |
| 312 KUENNING OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, |
| 313 INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, |
| 314 BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; |
| 315 LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER |
| 316 CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT |
| 317 LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN |
| 318 ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE |
| 319 POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. |
| 320 |
| 321 Build Date: Tue Jan 19 17:11:09 EST 2016 |
| 322 Wordlist Command: mk-list --accents=strip en_GB-ise 60 |
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