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diff --git a/en/README_en_GB.txt b/en/README_en_GB.txt index 88656e1..dce1820 100644 --- a/en/README_en_GB.txt +++ b/en/README_en_GB.txt @@ -5,17 +5,18 @@ LGPL licence. It has been extensively updated by David Bartlett, Brian Kelk, Andrew Brown and Marco A.G.Pinto: - — Numerous Americanisms have been removed; - — Numerous American spellings have been corrected; + — Numerous Americanisms/spellings have been removed; — Missing words have been added; — Many errors have been corrected; — Compound hyphenated words have been added where appropriate; — Thousands of proper/places names have been added; - — Thousands of possessives have been added to nouns and proper names. + — Thousands of possessives have been added; + — Thousands of plurals have been added; + — Over two thousand duplicates have been removed. 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. +people — far too numerous to name. Serious thanks to all for +your greatly appreciated help. This wordlist is intended to be a good representation of current modern British English and thus it should be a good @@ -57,22 +58,22 @@ OOo Issue 63541 — remove *dessicated 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 - — Recognising words with Unicode f ligatures - — Add phonetic suggestion (© 2000 Björn Jacke) + — Suggesting words with typographical apostrophes + — Recognising 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 - except Thunderbird +2016-09-11 — .AFF + .DIC now use UNIX line endings +2017-10-08 — Mozilla: used <em:maxVersion>*</em:maxVersion> to work with all future + versions, except Thunderbird 2017-12-16 — Added to the .AFF: - ICONV 1 - ICONV ’ ' - Thanks to Jeroen Ooms + ICONV 1 + ICONV ’ ' + Thanks to Jeroen Ooms 2018-05-01 — Andrew Ziem 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 + "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." 2018-08-01 — Slightly higher quality icon @@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ to My scientist friend, Peter McGavin, told me that in NZ they use British, so I decided to do something about it. I did the same for UK. I searched on Wikipedia for "towns", "counties", "villages", "boroughs", "suburbs", etc. and based me on: - — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_England; + — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_England; — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_New_Zealand; — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civil_parishes_in_England; — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civil_parishes_in_Scotland; @@ -101,21 +102,37 @@ to © The Clergy of the Church of England Database Project, 2005. 2018-10-01 — Added the cities from Australia by population: — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Australia_by_population - — Added tons of cities from the US with a 10 000+ population. - This list was supplied by Michael Holroyd on Kevin Atkinson's GitHub. - — Added tons of possessives to nouns, thanks to Jörg Knobloch. + — Added tons of cities from the US with a 10 000+ population. + This list was supplied by Michael Holroyd on Kevin Atkinson's GitHub. + — Added tons of possessives to nouns, thanks to Jörg Knobloch. 2018-12-01 — Added the cities from Canada: — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Canada 2019-02-01 — Improved flag "5" thanks to the GitHub user Ding-adong: - Some "swomen's" and "women's" entries were missing. + Some "swomen's" and "women's" entries were missing. — Fixed flag "3": -ists, -ists, -ist's → -ist, -ists, -ist's. — Improved flag "N". 2019-03-01 — Added the LGPL_V3 License .txt into the Extension. - — Ding-adong added a flag "=" for suffixes: -lessness, -lessnesses, -lessness's. + — Ding-adong added a flag "=" for suffixes: -lessness, -lessnesses, -lessness's. — Ding-adong changed the prefix flag "O" to "^" since "O" was both prefix and suffix. — Small fixes and enhancements on flags "z" and "O" by Ding-adong. -2019-04-01 — Improved flag "P" thanks to the GitHub user Ding-adong, giving also -nesses which - increased the wordlist in about 1800 valid words. +2019-04-01 — Improved flag "P" thanks to Ding-adong, giving also -nesses which + increased the wordlist in ~1800 valid words. +2019-07-01 — Major cleanup of the .dic by removing hundreds of duplicates, merging flags, adding + possessives and plurals. +2019-08-01 — Major cleanup of the .dic by removing hundreds of duplicates, merging flags, adding + possessives and plurals. + — Improved flags: "i", "n", "N", "O", "W", "Z" and "2": + — Flag "2" increased the wordlist in ~400 valid words; + — Flag "i" increased the wordlist in ~200 valid words; + — Flag "n" increased the wordlist in ~1000 valid words. +2019-09-01 — Major cleanup of the .dic by removing hundreds of duplicates, merging flags, adding + possessives and plurals. + — Improved flags: "O", "W", "Z" and "3". +2019-10-01 — Major cleanup of the .dic by removing hundreds of duplicates, merging flags, adding + possessives and plurals. + — Improved flags: "O". +2019-11-01 — Added hundreds of possessives and plurals. + — Improved flags: "O". ------- MARCO A.G.PINTO: @@ -131,7 +148,7 @@ The sources used to verify the spelling of the words I included in the dictionar 2) Collins Dictionary; 3) Macmillan Dictionary; 4) Cambridge Dictionary; - 5) Merriam-Webster Dictionary (used with caution ⚠); + 5) Merriam-Webster Dictionary (used with caution ⚠); 6) Wiktionary (used with caution ⚠); 7) Wikipedia (used with caution ⚠); 8) Physical dictionaries. |