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2 20040623 release.
3 --
4 This dictionary is based on a subset of the original
5 English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for Pspell
6 and Aspell and thus is covered by his original
7 LGPL license. The affix file is a heavily modified
8 version of the original english.aff file which was
9 released as part of Geoff Kuenning's Ispell and as
10 such is covered by his BSD license.
11
12 Thanks to both authors for there wonderful work.
13
14
15 ===================================================
16 en_AU:
17 This dictionary was based on the en_GB Myspell dictionary
18 which in turn was initially based on a subset of the
19 original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for
20 Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original
21 LGPL licence.
22
23 The credit for this en_AU dictionary goes to:
24
25 Kelvin Eldridge (maintainer)
26 Jean Hollis Weber
27 David Wilson
28
29 - Words incorrect in Australian English removed
30 - a list from the previously removed words with corrected spelling was added
31 - a list of major rivers was added
32 - a list of place names was added
33 - a list of Australian mammals was added
34 - a list of Aboriginal/Koori words commonly used was added
35
36 A total of 119,267 words are now recognized
37 by the dictionary.
38
39 Of course, special thanks go to the editors of the
40 en_GB dictionary (David Bartlett, Brian Kelk and
41 Andrew Brown) which provided the starting point
42 for this dictionary.
43
44 The affix file is currently a duplicate of the en_AU.aff
45 created completely from scratch by David Bartlett and
46 Andrew Brown, based on the published
47 rules for MySpell and is also provided under the LGPL.
48
49 If you find omissions or bugs or have new words to
50 add to the dictionary, please contact the en_AU
51 maintainer at:
52
53 "Kelvin" <audictionary@onlineconnections.com.au>
54
55
56
57 ===================================================
58 en_CA:
59 The dictionary file was created using the "final" English and Canadian SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists) wordlists available at Kevin's Word Lists Page (http://wordlist.sourceforge.net). Lists with the suffixes 10, 20, 35, 50, 65 and 65 were used. Lists with the suffixes 70, 80 and 95 were excluded. Copyright information for SCOWL and the wordlists used in creating it is reproduced below.
60
61 The affix file is identical to the MySpell English (United States) affix file. It is a heavily modified version of the original english.aff file which was released as part of Geoff Kuenning's Ispell and as such is covered by his BSD license.
62
63 ---
64
65 COPYRIGHT, SOURCES, and CREDITS from SCOWL readme file:
66
67 The collective work is Copyright 2000 by Kevin Atkinson as well as any
68 of the copyrights mentioned below:
69
70 Copyright 2000 by Kevin Atkinson
71
72 Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell these word
73 lists, the associated scripts, the output created from the scripts,
74 and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,
75 provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and
76 that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
77 supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations
78 about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided
79 "as is" without express or implied warranty.
80
81 Alan Beale <biljir@pobox.com> also deserves special credit as he has,
82 in addition to providing the 12Dicts package and being a major
83 contributor to the ENABLE word list, given me an incredible amount of
84 feedback and created a number of special lists (those found in the
85 Supplement) in order to help improve the overall quality of SCOWL.
86
87 The 10 level includes the 1000 most common English words (according to
88 the Moby (TM) Words II [MWords] package), a subset of the 1000 most
89 common words on the Internet (again, according to Moby Words II), and
90 frequently class 16 from Brian Kelk's "UK English Wordlist
91 with Frequency Classification".
92
93 The MWords package was explicitly placed in the public domain:
94
95 The Moby lexicon project is complete and has
96 been place into the public domain. Use, sell,
97 rework, excerpt and use in any way on any platform.
98
99 Placing this material on internal or public servers is
100 also encouraged. The compiler is not aware of any
101 export restrictions so freely distribute world-wide.
102
103 You can verify the public domain status by contacting
104
105 Grady Ward
106 3449 Martha Ct.
107 Arcata, CA 95521-4884
108
109 grady@netcom.com
110 grady@northcoast.com
111
112 The "UK English Wordlist With Frequency Classification" is also in the
113 Public Domain:
114
115 Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 20:27:21 +0100
116 From: Brian Kelk <Brian.Kelk@cl.cam.ac.uk>
117
118 > I was wondering what the copyright status of your "UK English
119 > Wordlist With Frequency Classification" word list as it seems to
120 > be lacking any copyright notice.
121
122 There were many many sources in total, but any text marked
123 "copyright" was avoided. Locally-written documentation was one
124 source. An earlier version of the list resided in a filespace called
125 PUBLIC on the University mainframe, because it was considered public
126 domain.
127
128 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:31:34 +0100
129
130 > So are you saying your word list is also in the public domain?
131
132 That is the intention.
133
134 The 20 level includes frequency classes 7-15 from Brian's word list.
135
136 The 35 level includes frequency classes 2-6 and words appearing in at
137 least 11 of 12 dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts package. All
138 words from the 12Dicts package have had likely inflections added via
139 my inflection database.
140
141 The 12Dicts package and Supplement is in the Public Domain.
142
143 The WordNet database, which was used in the creation of the
144 Inflections database, is under the following copyright:
145
146 This software and database is being provided to you, the LICENSEE,
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151
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156 disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software,
157 database and documentation, including modifications that you make
158 for internal use or for distribution.
159
160 WordNet 1.6 Copyright 1997 by Princeton University. All rights
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162
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176
177 The 50 level includes Brian's frequency class 1, words words appearing
178 in at least 5 of 12 of the dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts
179 package, and uppercase words in at least 4 of the previous 12
180 dictionaries. A decent number of proper names is also included: The
181 top 1000 male, female, and Last names from the 1990 Census report; a
182 list of names sent to me by Alan Beale; and a few names that I added
183 myself. Finally a small list of abbreviations not commonly found in
184 other word lists is included.
185
186 The name files form the Census report is a government document which I
187 don't think can be copyrighted.
188
189 The name list from Alan Beale is also derived from the linux words
190 list, which is derived from the DEC list. He also added a bunch of
191 miscellaneous names to the list, which he released to the Public Domain.
192
193 The DEC Word list doesn't have a formal name. It is labeled as "FILE:
194 english.words; VERSION: DEC-SRC-92-04-05" and was put together by Jorge
195 Stolfi <stolfi@src.dec.com> DEC Systems Research Center. The DEC Word
196 list has the following copyright statement:
197
198 (NON-)COPYRIGHT STATUS
199
200 To the best of my knowledge, all the files I used to build these
201 wordlists were available for public distribution and use, at least
202 for non-commercial purposes. I have confirmed this assumption with
203 the authors of the lists, whenever they were known.
204
205 Therefore, it is safe to assume that the wordlists in this package
206 can also be freely copied, distributed, modified, and used for
207 personal, educational, and research purposes. (Use of these files in
208 commercial products may require written permission from DEC and/or
209 the authors of the original lists.)
210
211 Whenever you distribute any of these wordlists, please distribute
212 also the accompanying README file. If you distribute a modified
213 copy of one of these wordlists, please include the original README
214 file with a note explaining your modifications. Your users will
215 surely appreciate that.
216
217 (NO-)WARRANTY DISCLAIMER
218
219 These files, like the original wordlists on which they are based,
220 are still very incomplete, uneven, and inconsitent, and probably
221 contain many errors. They are offered "as is" without any warranty
222 of correctness or fitness for any particular purpose. Neither I nor
223 my employer can be held responsible for any losses or damages that
224 may result from their use.
225
226 However since this Word List is used in the linux.words package which
227 the author claims is free of any copyright I assume it is OK to use
228 for most purposes. If you want to use this in a commercial project
229 and this concerns you the information from the DEC word list can
230 easily be removed without much sacrifice in quality as only the name
231 lists were used.
232
233 The file special-jargon.50 uses common.lst and word.lst from the
234 "Unofficial Jargon File Word Lists" which is derived from "The Jargon
235 File". All of which is in the Public Domain. This file also contain
236 a few extra UNIX terms which are found in the file "unix-terms" in the
237 special/ directory.
238
239 The 60 level includes Brian's frequency class 0 and all words
240 appearing in at least 2 of the 12 dictionaries as indicated by the
241 12Dicts package. A large number of names are also included: The 4,946
242 female names and 3,897 male names from the MWords package and the
243 files "computer.names", "misc.names", and "org.names" from the DEC
244 package.
245
246 The 65 level includes words found in the Ispell "medium" word list.
247 The Ispell word lists are under the same copyright of Ispell itself
248 which is:
249
250 Copyright 1993, Geoff Kuenning, Granada Hills, CA
251 All rights reserved.
252
253 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
254 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
255 are met:
256
257 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
258 notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
259 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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262 3. All modifications to the source code must be clearly marked as
263 such. Binary redistributions based on modified source code
264 must be clearly marked as modified versions in the documentation
265 and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
266 4. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
267 must display the following acknowledgment:
268 This product includes software developed by Geoff Kuenning and
269 other unpaid contributors.
270 5. The name of Geoff Kuenning may not be used to endorse or promote
271 products derived from this software without specific prior
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273
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286
287 The 70 level includes the 74,550 common dictionary words and the 21,986 names
288 list from the MWords package. The common dictionary words, like those
289 from the 12Dicts package, have had all likely inflections added.
290
291 The 80 level includes the ENABLE word list, all the lists in the
292 ENABLE supplement package (except for ABLE), the "UK Advanced Cryptics
293 Dictionary" (UKACD), the list of signature words in from YAWL package,
294 and the 10,196 places list from the MWords package.
295
296 The ENABLE package, mainted by M\Cooper <thegrendel@theriver.com>,
297 is in the Public Domain:
298
299 The ENABLE master word list, WORD.LST, is herewith formally released
300 into the Public Domain. Anyone is free to use it or distribute it in
301 any manner they see fit. No fee or registration is required for its
302 use nor are "contributions" solicited (if you feel you absolutely
303 must contribute something for your own peace of mind, the authors of
304 the ENABLE list ask that you make a donation on their behalf to your
305 favorite charity). This word list is our gift to the Scrabble
306 community, as an alternate to "official" word lists. Game designers
307 may feel free to incorporate the WORD.LST into their games. Please
308 mention the source and credit us as originators of the list. Note
309 that if you, as a game designer, use the WORD.LST in your product,
310 you may still copyright and protect your product, but you may *not*
311 legally copyright or in any way restrict redistribution of the
312 WORD.LST portion of your product. This *may* under law restrict your
313 rights to restrict your users' rights, but that is only fair.
314
315 UKACD, by J Ross Beresford <ross@bryson.demon.co.uk>, is under the
316 following copyright:
317
318 Copyright (c) J Ross Beresford 1993-1999. All Rights Reserved.
319
320 The following restriction is placed on the use of this publication:
321 if The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary is used in a software package
322 or redistributed in any form, the copyright notice must be
323 prominently displayed and the text of this document must be included
324 verbatim.
325
326 There are no other restrictions: I would like to see the list
327 distributed as widely as possible.
328
329 The 95 level includes the 354,984 single words and 256,772 compound
330 words from the MWords package, ABLE.LST from the ENABLE Supplement,
331 and some additional words found in my part-of-speech database that
332 were not found anywhere else.
333
334 Accent information was taken from UKACD.
335
336 My VARCON package was used to create the American, British, and
337 Canadian word list.
338
339 Since the original word lists used used in the
340 VARCON package came from the Ispell distribution they are under the
341 Ispell copyright.
342
343 The variant word lists were created from a list of variants found in
344 the 12dicts supplement package as well as a list of variants I created
345 myself.
346
347
348
349
350 ===================================================
351 en_GB:
352 This dictionary was initially based on a subset of the
353 original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for
354 Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original
355 LGPL licence.
356
357 It has been extensively updated by David Bartlett, Brian Kelk
358 and Andrew Brown:
359 - numerous Americanism have been removed
360 - numerous American spellings have been corrected
361 - missing words have been added
362 - many errors have been corrected
363 - compound hyphenated words have been added where appropriate
364
365 Valuable inputs to this process were received from many other
366 people - far too numerous to name. Serious thanks to you all
367 for your greatly appreciated help.
368
369 This word list is intended to be a good representation of
370 current modern British English and thus it should be a good
371 basis for Commonwealth English in most countries of the world
372 outside North America.
373
374 The affix file has been created completely from scratch
375 by David Bartlett and Andrew Brown, based on the published
376 rules for MySpell and is also provided under the LGPL.
377
378 In creating the affix rules an attempt has been made to
379 reproduce the most general rules for English word
380 formation, rather than merely use it as a means to
381 compress the size of the dictionary. It is hoped that this
382 will facilitate future localisation to other variants of
383 English.
384
385 Please let David Bartlett <dwb@openoffice.org> know of any
386 errors that you find.
387
388 The current release is R 1.18, 11/04/05
389 ===================================================
390 en_NZ:
391 I. Copyright
392 II. Copying (Licence)
393 ----------------------------
394
395 I. Copyright
396
397 NZ English Dictionary v0.9 beta - Build 06SEP03
398 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
399 NB This is an initial version, please check:
400 http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/download_dictionary.html
401 or
402 http://www.girlza.com/dictionary/download.html
403 for a final version, after a little while (no hurry).
404
405 This dictionary is based on the en_GB Myspell dictionary
406 which in turn was initially based on a subset of the
407 original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for
408 Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original
409 LGPL licence.
410
411
412 Introduction
413 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
414 en_NZ.dic has been altered to include New Zealand places,
415 including major cities and towns, and major suburbs. It
416 also contains NZ words, organisations and expressions.
417
418 en_NZ.aff has had a few REPlace strings added, but is
419 basically unchanged.
420
421
422 Acknowledgements
423 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
424 Thanks must go to the original creators of the British
425 dictionary, David Bartlett, Brian Kelk and Andrew Brown.
426
427 I wouldn't have started this without seeing the Australian
428 dictionary, thanks Kelvin Eldridge, Jean Hollis Weber and
429 David Wilson.
430
431 And thank you to all who've contributed to OpenOffice.org.
432
433
434 License
435 ~~~~~~~
436 This dictionary is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public
437 License, viewable at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html
438
439
440 Issues
441 ~~~~~~
442 Many of the proper nouns already in the dictionary do not have
443 an affix for 's.
444 All my new words start after the z's of the original dictionary.
445
446
447 Contact
448 ~~~~~~~
449 Contact Tristan Burtenshaw (hooty@slingshot.co.nz) with any words,
450 places or other suggestions for the dictionary.
451
452
453
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