On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, dwb wrote: > 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.
In that case than the en_GB should not be resynced but the en_US and en_CA should. > | 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. I also provide a dictionary which uses both. I think it is better to only include one spelling to promote consistent spelling. > | 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. Again. What I said for en_US and en_CA holds. For en_GB probably not. However, if you have the time I would appreciate it if you could run a cross check like you suggested. I will post Myspell dictionaries generated from the Aspell ones latter today. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
