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Kevin,
If I may I'd like to clarify the situation regarding en_GB for OOo MySpell.
Kevin Atkinson wrote: | All the English dictionaries are based on an old version of the Aspell | dictionary. And has many problems with it. The latest version corrects
The en_GB dictionary used for OOo is so extensively reworked including the use of other reliable sources for British English that I do not believe that it can be considered as being based on the Aspell dictionary any longer. The original one was, I agree, but the current version is completely reworked.
| almost all the problems. Aspell dictionaries are based on SCOWL which is | a combination of several high quality word lists available on the net. | The end results is a very high quality and complete word list. The word | lists are currently available in several spellings (en_US, en_GB with -ise | spelling, en_GB with -ize spelling, and en_CA). The only possible problem
The en_GB version contains both -ise and -ize versions of words. The reason for this decision is that there are two schools of thought in the UK and the choice of which to use is a personal or house preference and neither is wrong.
| with the en_GB and en_CA dictionaries is that they may be missing locale | specific words and common place names. Something with I will be willing | to correct provided someone provides me with suitable lists.
Most of the common locale specific words have been added to en_GB and many of the locale words that are not applicable removed. If anyone finds errors in the en_GB dictionary I'd appreciate hearing about them. An updated version with more errors corrected is in the pipeline at the moment so now would be a good time to let me have any error reports.
As said before I only speak for the en_GB OOo MySpell dictionary and not for any of the others. I also cannot speak for the Aspell dictionaries. :-)
| The Aspell English dictionary is available at | http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/en/. In order to view the word lists | you will need the prezip-bin or word-list-compress utility distributed | with Aspell. A script is included which will generate the word list from | the SCOWL source which is available at http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/. | | I strongly suggest that the OO dictionaries are resynced with the | latest version of the Aspell dictionaries.
Regarding en_GB I'm not sure of the merit in doing this. We spent many hundreds of man hours cleaning it up in the first place. It may be worth running a cross-check to find errors (both ways) though.
Regards David.
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