Dilwyn Jones wrote:
...
One thing I need help on is on what appears to be a simple ASCII
compression scheme on some of the unix-sourced word lists. I'm
assuming they're from Unix systems because the end of line character
is only a linefeed, no carriage returns. I need to find out if the
following is a known standard or not:
After many words, there's a forward slash followed by single letters
indicating various word endings. Example: Abbreviate/DGNSX or ABBEY/MS
In some cases it's quite obvious that /S indicates plural or current
tense is valid, e.g. /S implies Abbreviates, /D implies Abbreviated,
although there's a certain amount of grammar dependency, e.g. PLAY/S
would mean that both PLAY and PLAYS are valid, but ABNOMALITY/S is
less easy because the plural is ABNORMALITIES.
I've no real idea, but I love a challenge...
It's obviously a code of some sort, but I don't think it's quite as you suspect:
...
abandon/DGS
abandonment
abase/DGS
...
abbey/MS
abbot/MS
Abbott
abbreviate/DGNSX
...
aberrate/NX
...
ability/MS
abject/PY
abjection/S
abjure/DGS
ablate/DGNSV
ablaze
able/RT
ablute/N
...
It's the 'R', 'M', 'X' etc that lead me to suspect that. I would suspect
that each letter means something, just not a direct 'S' pluralises with 'S'.
Some of the listed words don't exist in my dictionaries (eg aberrate,
ablute; though aberration and ablution both exist) - Concise Oxford
Dictionary, and my American MW (Marion-Webster?) Dictionary.
From where did you get this list, and what's the file called? And do you
have any idea of the original purpose of the list - ie what sort of app
might have processed it?
They may give us something more to search if there is nobody who knows
(which I suspect).
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