I found this source of english word lists, including one IN JSON https://github.com/dwyl/english-words
- Did you know before the first dictionary word lists were very popular? - They did not include the meaning but listed the words you needed to know if you wanted to be part of the aristocracy or royal court. - Give a large word list you could check those you know and learn words you do not know. - Lets have a link that searches for a given word in other databases. Regards Tony On Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 12:41:27 PM UTC+11, TonyM wrote: > > Folks, > > Join our Collaborative Project -* Words* > > Recent collaborative discussions and illustrated some interesting methods > and challenges for our community. Words and Numbers. > I thought I would initiate a couple to stimulate activity from the > community, join in and contribute if you can otherwise lurkers are fine. > > *AIM: *Develop and improve the ability for people to interrogate large > word lists with TiddlyWiki > > *Inspiration: *Whatever your language as a rule you most likely use a > maximum of a 2,000 to 45,000 word vocabulary, yet word lists are freely > available with more. By importing them into tiddlywiki is becomes possible > for you to interrogate these words in a number of ways and for a number of > reasons; > > - Help you practice fo Scrabble, make or do crossword puzzles > - Make a Wiki based game of [[Boggle| > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggle]] (buy the game to pay for the > intellectual property) > - Learn a language by searching for base, root, prefix suffix and more > - Build a cryptography language (for fun) > - Perhaps special lists geometrical shapes, chemical or biological > names > - Build a set of data sources we can share in out community already > prepared for use in TiddlyWiki > - Just enjoy the love of language > > Large lists present possible performance issues, but as demonstrated > recently 66,000 words are feasible and I expect even larger numbers with > the right design. Word lists can be in a single data tiddler you > interrogate or a single tiddler once you wish to add information to a given > word. Canned search strings that may interest people would also be fun, > like all english words prefixed or containing polly. > > *Where do we start?* > > - Where do we source some good word lists? are they maintained > - How do we best import them? > - Create a custom search that first looks for tiddlers then looks in a > data tiddler > - Provide an easy to use Regex or other wild card search with guidance > > Lets get started Logophiles. > *A person who is a lover of words. > <https://steemit.com/philes/@mike50/25-philes-and-what-they-mean-which-philes-describes-you>* > How many philes are there? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/4ff63922-49a1-4aef-a163-d33bd9d38c45%40googlegroups.com.
