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diff --git a/en/README_en_GB.txt b/en/README_en_GB.txt index 6a5d0b6..9bba23e 100644 --- a/en/README_en_GB.txt +++ b/en/README_en_GB.txt @@ -1,19 +1,19 @@ 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 +Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original LGPL licence. It has been extensively updated by David Bartlett, Brian Kelk, Andrew Brown and Marco A.G.Pinto: - — Numerous Americanism have been removed; + — Numerous Americanisms 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. + — Thousands of proper/places 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 +people — far too numerous to name. Serious thanks to you all for your greatly appreciated help. This wordlist is intended to be a good representation of @@ -27,18 +27,18 @@ 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. +formation, rather than merely use it to compress the +size of the dictionary. It is hoped that this will +facilitate future localisation to other variants of English. --- -This is a locally hosted copy of the English dictionaries with fixed dash handling and new ligature and phonetic suggestion support extension: -http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/node/3785 +This is a locally hosted copy of the English dictionaries with fixed +dash handling and new ligature and phonetic suggestion support extension: +https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/node/3785 Original version of the en_GB dictionary: -http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi/id=72145 +https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=72145 OpenOffice.org patch and morphological extension. @@ -48,43 +48,69 @@ 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 +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 — 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 (© 2000 Björn Jacke) - -2013-08-25 — GB Forked by Marco A.G.Pinto + — 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) +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 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: +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 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 + — Added tons of drugs names supplied by the user Andrew Ziem on Kevin's GitHub + — Fixed/improved flag "5": "women's" was missing +2018-06-01 +to +2018-09-01 — Added places from New Zealand/UK (England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland): + On V2.61–2.64 I included tons of place names. + 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_New_Zealand; + — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civil_parishes_in_England; + — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civil_parishes_in_Scotland; + — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_in_Scotland; + — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communities_in_Wales; + — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_Wales; + — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_and_villages_in_Northern_Ireland; + — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_Northern_Ireland; + — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Suburbs_in_New_Zealand; + — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Church_of_Scotland_parishes. + Also, added places sent to me by Peter C.: + © OpenStreetMap contributors: www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. + © 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. + ------- MARCO A.G.PINTO: -Since the dictionary hasn't been updated for many years, -I decided to fork it in order to add new words and fixes. - -I even added words such as common names of software and hardware. +Since the dictionary wasn't updated for many years, I forked it to add new words and fixes. I grabbed Mozilla's version since it wasn't obfuscated. Alexandro Colorado and I -tried to unmunch the OpenOffice version but all we got was garbage. +tried to unmunch the OpenOffice version but all we got was rubbish. The dictionary icon in the Extension Manager was designed by Pedro Marques. @@ -94,7 +120,7 @@ The sources used to verify the spelling of the words I included in the dictionar 3) Macmillan Dictionary; 4) Wiktionary (used with caution); 5) Wikipedia (used with caution); - 6) Physical dictionaries + 6) Physical dictionaries. Main difficulties developing this dictionary: 1) Proper names; @@ -109,14 +135,14 @@ Site: http://proofingtoolgui.org FAQ: -http://marcoagpinto.cidadevirtual.pt/faq.html +http://proofingtoolgui.org/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. +http://proofingtoolgui.org/faq.html#7 +Notice: Due to complaints, "movie" was added on V2.57 since it is a widely used word. Changelog: -http://marcoagpinto.cidadevirtual.pt/en_GB_CHANGES.txt +http://proofingtoolgui.org/en_GB_CHANGES.txt Nightly changes (GitHub): https://github.com/marcoagpinto/aoo-mozilla-en-dict |