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