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diff --git a/en/README_en_GB.txt b/en/README_en_GB.txt index 7dbabe1..6a5d0b6 100644 --- a/en/README_en_GB.txt +++ b/en/README_en_GB.txt @@ -3,13 +3,14 @@ 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. +It has been extensively updated by David Bartlett, Brian Kelk, +Andrew Brown and Marco A.G.Pinto: + — 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; + — Thousands of proper names have been added. Valuable inputs to this process were received from many other people - far too numerous to name. Serious thanks to you all @@ -46,25 +47,33 @@ 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 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 +OOo Issue 63541 — remove *dessicated -2008-12-18 - NOSUGGEST, NUMBER/COMPOUNDRULE patches (nemeth AT OOo) +2008-12-18 — NOSUGGEST, NUMBER/COMPOUNDRULE patches (nemeth AT OOo) 2010-03-09 (nemeth AT OOo) - - UTF-8 encoded dictionary: - - fix em-dash problem of OOo 3.2 by BREAK - - suggesting words with typographical apostrophes - - recognizing words with Unicode f ligatures - - add phonetic suggestion (Copyright (C) 2000 Björn Jacke, see the end of the file) - - 2013-08-25 - GB Forked by Marco A.G.Pinto - 2016-06-10 - NOSUGGEST added to this clean version of the GB .AFF (Marco A.G.Pinto) - 2016-06-21 - COMPOUNDING added to this clean version of the GB .AFF (Áron Budea) - 2016-08-01 - GB changelog is no longer included in the README file - 2016-09-11 - .AFF + .DIC now use Linux line endings - 2017-10-08 - Mozilla: used <em:maxVersion>*</em:maxVersion> to work with all future versions + — UTF-8 encoded dictionary: + — fix em-dash problem of OOo 3.2 by BREAK + — suggesting words with typographical apostrophes + — recognizing words with Unicode f ligatures + — add phonetic suggestion (© 2000 Björn Jacke) + +2013-08-25 — GB Forked by Marco A.G.Pinto +2016-06-10 — NOSUGGEST added to this clean version of the GB .AFF (Marco A.G.Pinto) +2016-06-21 — COMPOUNDING added to this clean version of the GB .AFF (Áron Budea) +2016-08-01 — GB changelog is no longer included in the README file +2016-09-11 — .AFF + .DIC now use Linux line endings +2017-10-08 — Mozilla: used <em:maxVersion>*</em:maxVersion> to work with all future versions +2017-12-16 — Added to the .AFF: + ICONV 1 + ICONV ’ ' + Thanks to Jeroen Ooms +2018-05-01 — The user az0 suggested a list of 328 names of famous people on Kevin's GitHub: + "These 328 name tokens were derived from the top 100 lists in Google Trends via + this repository (https://github.com/az0/google-trend-names). The geography was + set to US, and it spanned dates from 2004 to 2018." ------- @@ -80,28 +89,32 @@ tried to unmunch the OpenOffice version but all we got was garbage. The dictionary icon in the Extension Manager was designed by Pedro Marques. The sources used to verify the spelling of the words I included in the dictionary: -1) Oxford Dictionaries; -2) Collins Dictionary; -3) Macmillan Dictionary; -4) Wiktionary (used with caution); -5) Wikipedia (used with caution); -6) Physical dictionaries + 1) Oxford Dictionaries; + 2) Collins Dictionary; + 3) Macmillan Dictionary; + 4) Wiktionary (used with caution); + 5) Wikipedia (used with caution); + 6) Physical dictionaries Main difficulties developing this dictionary: -1) Proper names; -2) Possessive forms; -3) Plurals. + 1) Proper names; + 2) Possessive forms; + 3) Plurals. Please let Marco A.G.Pinto know of any errors that you find: E-mail: -marcoagpinto@mail.telepac.pt +marcoagpinto@sapo.pt Site: -http://marcoagpinto.cidadevirtual.pt/proofingtoolgui.html +http://proofingtoolgui.org FAQ: http://marcoagpinto.cidadevirtual.pt/faq.html +FAQ ("movie", "automobile", "airplane", "hardcover" and "bookstore"): +http://marcoagpinto.cidadevirtual.pt/faq.html#7 +Notice: Due to complains, "movie" was added on V2.57 since it is a widely used word. + Changelog: http://marcoagpinto.cidadevirtual.pt/en_GB_CHANGES.txt |