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- 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 <dbartlett@iee.org> know of any
- errors that you find.
-
- The current release is R 1.14, 15/12/02 or later
-