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author | Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud@gmail.com> | 2012-09-01 09:50:26 -0500 |
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committer | Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud@gmail.com> | 2012-10-16 11:09:27 -0500 |
commit | a4473e06b56bfe35187e302754f6baaa8d75e54f (patch) | |
tree | fd17c2dc5dbf56469de2eaa851eda4087f385313 /en/README_en_GB.txt | |
parent | 0493c1b142b0c498931e8ff5d6460ef852026d20 (diff) |
move dictionaries structure one directory up
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diff --git a/en/README_en_GB.txt b/en/README_en_GB.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..221f661 --- /dev/null +++ b/en/README_en_GB.txt @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +Original version of the en_GB dictionary: +http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi/id=72145 + +OpenOffice.org patch and morphological extension + +The morphological extension based on Wordlist POS and AGID data +created by Kevin Atkinson and released on http://wordlist.sourceforge.net. + +Other fixes: + +OOo Issue 48060 - add numbers with affixes by COMPOUNDRULE (1st, 111th, 1990s etc.) +OOo Issue 29112, 55498 - add NOSUGGEST flags to taboo words +New REP items (better suggestions for accented words and a few mistakes) +OOo Issue 63541 - remove *dessicated + +2008-12-18 nemeth AT OOo + +Original license: + +This dictionary was initially based on a subset of the +original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for +Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original +LGPL licence. + +It has been extensively updated by David Bartlett, Brian Kelk +and Andrew Brown: +- numerous Americanism have been removed +- numerous American spellings have been corrected +- missing words have been added +- many errors have been corrected +- compound hyphenated words have been added where appropriate + +Valuable inputs to this process were received from many other +people - far too numerous to name. Serious thanks to you all +for your greatly appreciated help. + +This word list is intended to be a good representation of +current modern British English and thus it should be a good +basis for Commonwealth English in most countries of the world +outside North America. + +The affix file has been created completely from scratch +by David Bartlett and Andrew Brown, based on the published +rules for MySpell and is also provided under the LGPL. + +In creating the affix rules an attempt has been made to +reproduce the most general rules for English word +formation, rather than merely use it as a means to +compress the size of the dictionary. It is hoped that this +will facilitate future localisation to other variants of +English. + +Please let David Bartlett <dwb@openoffice.org> know of any +errors that you find. + +The current release is R 1.20, 30/11/2006 |