Package: dict-wn
Version: 2.0g-11
Severity: minor

Hi

* "Tangential" Appreciation

You know, these dictionaries are greatly apprecaited, and apprecable --
Wordnet, absolutely, included. 

* Tangential Thought, Regarding Debian and Dictionaries

I'm suprised if more academic institutions wouldn't yet have noticed the
value of Debian, regarding such as dictionaries, and such as the already
available dictionaries, as they are. 

(Some persons of MIT might have noticed such, "at least". The MIT 
Athena Project [http://web.mit.edu/olh/ ] -- beside that their SIPB docs
have disappeared, after some caching had been done, yet that Athena project
was and will remain as the the origin/home of Kerberos, Hesiod, Zephyr, and
else. In all, Their Athena stands as an exemplary university IS ... not
necessarily well beloved by anyone not digging "The Greek Mythos", but
still, "however so" ...  "incidentally".)


Much appreciated -- even as it is known (to one user, and others, heh)  --
your work is, for maintaining the dict-wn package for us site/user people.

(That might "read like non-English", but heck. It's an expression, legible,
of a fact -- in short: Dude, thank you.)

* The issue

In the Wordnet dictionary: The definition of "ID" contains a typoed "the" --
typed "teh"

ID \ID\, ID \I.D.\([imac]d[=e]"), n. [capitalized] [shortened
   form of identification.]
      any document testifying to teh identity of the bearer,
         especially a card or badge.
         


* Incidental, Possible Followup

This serves to indicate the possibility that a spellchecker would be run on
the Wordnet dictionary sources, on the behalf of whomever would be "the
primary authority" or "primary maintianer" about Wordnet .. or done, so that
it could be diffed and patched for the upstream.

There's a nifty project for some spellchecking softwaer, either. 

I'll make a note of it, try to mention it to the pspell and/or aspell and/or
ispell folks -- "someone!" must have a *spell project that would be "best
applicable", for such as the aforementioned.

Heck, here's "a note of it" firstly and cooperatively shared, hehe.

No rush; It stands to reason, either:  "With FOSS, all feature-requests,
noted, are doable, likely as bugs are shalow."


Thanks.

- -
Sean Champ
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages dict-wn depends on:
ii  dictd [dict-server]           1.9.15-1   Dictionary Server

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