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| 2 | them. See ":help spell" for more information. |
| 3 | |
| 4 | |
| 5 | Copyright |
| 6 | |
| 7 | The files used as input for the spell files come from the OpenOffice.org spell |
| 8 | files. Most of them go under the LGPL or a similar license. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Copyright notices for specific languages follow. Note that the files for |
| 11 | different regions are merged, both to save space and to make it possible to |
| 12 | highlight words for another region different from bad words. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- |
| 15 | en_US |
| 16 | |
| 17 | 20040623 release. |
| 18 | -- |
| 19 | This dictionary is based on a subset of the original |
| 20 | English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for Pspell |
| 21 | and Aspell and thus is covered by his original |
| 22 | LGPL license. The affix file is a heavily modified |
| 23 | version of the original english.aff file which was |
| 24 | released as part of Geoff Kuenning's Ispell and as |
| 25 | such is covered by his BSD license. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Thanks to both authors for there wonderful work. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- |
| 30 | en_AU |
| 31 | |
| 32 | This dictionary was based on the en_GB Myspell dictionary |
| 33 | which in turn was initially based on a subset of the |
| 34 | original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for |
| 35 | Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original |
| 36 | LGPL licence. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | The credit for this en_AU dictionary goes to: |
| 39 | |
| 40 | Kelvin Eldridge (maintainer) |
| 41 | Jean Hollis Weber |
| 42 | David Wilson |
| 43 | |
| 44 | - Words incorrect in Australian English removed |
| 45 | - a list from the previously removed words with corrected spelling was added |
| 46 | - a list of major rivers was added |
| 47 | - a list of place names was added |
| 48 | - a list of Australian mammals was added |
| 49 | - a list of Aboriginal/Koori words commonly used was added |
| 50 | |
| 51 | A total of 119,267 words are now recognized |
| 52 | by the dictionary. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | Of course, special thanks go to the editors of the |
| 55 | en_GB dictionary (David Bartlett, Brian Kelk and |
| 56 | Andrew Brown) which provided the starting point |
| 57 | for this dictionary. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | The affix file is currently a duplicate of the en_AU.aff |
| 60 | created completely from scratch by David Bartlett and |
| 61 | Andrew Brown, based on the published |
| 62 | rules for MySpell and is also provided under the LGPL. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | If you find omissions or bugs or have new words to |
| 65 | add to the dictionary, please contact the en_AU |
| 66 | maintainer at: |
| 67 | |
| 68 | "Kelvin" <audictionary@onlineconnections.com.au> |
| 69 | |
| 70 | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- |
| 71 | en_CA |
| 72 | |
| 73 | The dictionary file was created using the "final" English and Canadian SCOWL |
| 74 | (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists) wordlists available at Kevin's Word Lists |
| 75 | Page (http://wordlist.sourceforge.net). Lists with the suffixes 10, 20, 35, |
| 76 | 50, 65 and 65 were used. Lists with the suffixes 70, 80 and 95 were excluded. |
| 77 | Copyright information for SCOWL and the wordlists used in creating it is |
| 78 | reproduced below. |
| 79 | |
| 80 | The affix file is identical to the MySpell English (United States) affix file. |
| 81 | It is a heavily modified version of the original english.aff file which was |
| 82 | released as part of Geoff Kuenning's Ispell and as such is covered by his BSD |
| 83 | license. |
| 84 | |
| 85 | --- |
| 86 | |
| 87 | COPYRIGHT, SOURCES, and CREDITS from SCOWL readme file: |
| 88 | |
| 89 | The collective work is Copyright 2000 by Kevin Atkinson as well as any |
| 90 | of the copyrights mentioned below: |
| 91 | |
| 92 | Copyright 2000 by Kevin Atkinson |
| 93 | |
| 94 | Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell these word |
| 95 | lists, the associated scripts, the output created from the scripts, |
| 96 | and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, |
| 97 | provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and |
| 98 | that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in |
| 99 | supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations |
| 100 | about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided |
| 101 | "as is" without express or implied warranty. |
| 102 | |
| 103 | Alan Beale <biljir@pobox.com> also deserves special credit as he has, |
| 104 | in addition to providing the 12Dicts package and being a major |
| 105 | contributor to the ENABLE word list, given me an incredible amount of |
| 106 | feedback and created a number of special lists (those found in the |
| 107 | Supplement) in order to help improve the overall quality of SCOWL. |
| 108 | |
| 109 | The 10 level includes the 1000 most common English words (according to |
| 110 | the Moby (TM) Words II [MWords] package), a subset of the 1000 most |
| 111 | common words on the Internet (again, according to Moby Words II), and |
| 112 | frequently class 16 from Brian Kelk's "UK English Wordlist |
| 113 | with Frequency Classification". |
| 114 | |
| 115 | The MWords package was explicitly placed in the public domain: |
| 116 | |
| 117 | The Moby lexicon project is complete and has |
| 118 | been place into the public domain. Use, sell, |
| 119 | rework, excerpt and use in any way on any platform. |
| 120 | |
| 121 | Placing this material on internal or public servers is |
| 122 | also encouraged. The compiler is not aware of any |
| 123 | export restrictions so freely distribute world-wide. |
| 124 | |
| 125 | You can verify the public domain status by contacting |
| 126 | |
| 127 | Grady Ward |
| 128 | 3449 Martha Ct. |
| 129 | Arcata, CA 95521-4884 |
| 130 | |
| 131 | grady@netcom.com |
| 132 | grady@northcoast.com |
| 133 | |
| 134 | The "UK English Wordlist With Frequency Classification" is also in the |
| 135 | Public Domain: |
| 136 | |
| 137 | Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 20:27:21 +0100 |
| 138 | From: Brian Kelk <Brian.Kelk@cl.cam.ac.uk> |
| 139 | |
| 140 | > I was wondering what the copyright status of your "UK English |
| 141 | > Wordlist With Frequency Classification" word list as it seems to |
| 142 | > be lacking any copyright notice. |
| 143 | |
| 144 | There were many many sources in total, but any text marked |
| 145 | "copyright" was avoided. Locally-written documentation was one |
| 146 | source. An earlier version of the list resided in a filespace called |
| 147 | PUBLIC on the University mainframe, because it was considered public |
| 148 | domain. |
| 149 | |
| 150 | Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:31:34 +0100 |
| 151 | |
| 152 | > So are you saying your word list is also in the public domain? |
| 153 | |
| 154 | That is the intention. |
| 155 | |
| 156 | The 20 level includes frequency classes 7-15 from Brian's word list. |
| 157 | |
| 158 | The 35 level includes frequency classes 2-6 and words appearing in at |
| 159 | least 11 of 12 dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts package. All |
| 160 | words from the 12Dicts package have had likely inflections added via |
| 161 | my inflection database. |
| 162 | |
| 163 | The 12Dicts package and Supplement is in the Public Domain. |
| 164 | |
| 165 | The WordNet database, which was used in the creation of the |
| 166 | Inflections database, is under the following copyright: |
| 167 | |
| 168 | This software and database is being provided to you, the LICENSEE, |
| 169 | by Princeton University under the following license. By obtaining, |
| 170 | using and/or copying this software and database, you agree that you |
| 171 | have read, understood, and will comply with these terms and |
| 172 | conditions.: |
| 173 | |
| 174 | Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and |
| 175 | database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or |
| 176 | royalty is hereby granted, provided that you agree to comply with |
| 177 | the following copyright notice and statements, including the |
| 178 | disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software, |
| 179 | database and documentation, including modifications that you make |
| 180 | for internal use or for distribution. |
| 181 | |
| 182 | WordNet 1.6 Copyright 1997 by Princeton University. All rights |
| 183 | reserved. |
| 184 | |
| 185 | THIS SOFTWARE AND DATABASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND PRINCETON |
| 186 | UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR |
| 187 | IMPLIED. BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, BUT NOT LIMITATION, PRINCETON |
| 188 | UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF MERCHANT- |
| 189 | ABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF THE |
| 190 | LICENSED SOFTWARE, DATABASE OR DOCUMENTATION WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY |
| 191 | THIRD PARTY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS OR OTHER RIGHTS. |
| 192 | |
| 193 | The name of Princeton University or Princeton may not be used in |
| 194 | advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software |
| 195 | and/or database. Title to copyright in this software, database and |
| 196 | any associated documentation shall at all times remain with |
| 197 | Princeton University and LICENSEE agrees to preserve same. |
| 198 | |
| 199 | The 50 level includes Brian's frequency class 1, words words appearing |
| 200 | in at least 5 of 12 of the dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts |
| 201 | package, and uppercase words in at least 4 of the previous 12 |
| 202 | dictionaries. A decent number of proper names is also included: The |
| 203 | top 1000 male, female, and Last names from the 1990 Census report; a |
| 204 | list of names sent to me by Alan Beale; and a few names that I added |
| 205 | myself. Finally a small list of abbreviations not commonly found in |
| 206 | other word lists is included. |
| 207 | |
| 208 | The name files form the Census report is a government document which I |
| 209 | don't think can be copyrighted. |
| 210 | |
| 211 | The name list from Alan Beale is also derived from the linux words |
| 212 | list, which is derived from the DEC list. He also added a bunch of |
| 213 | miscellaneous names to the list, which he released to the Public Domain. |
| 214 | |
| 215 | The DEC Word list doesn't have a formal name. It is labeled as "FILE: |
| 216 | english.words; VERSION: DEC-SRC-92-04-05" and was put together by Jorge |
| 217 | Stolfi <stolfi@src.dec.com> DEC Systems Research Center. The DEC Word |
| 218 | list has the following copyright statement: |
| 219 | |
| 220 | (NON-)COPYRIGHT STATUS |
| 221 | |
| 222 | To the best of my knowledge, all the files I used to build these |
| 223 | wordlists were available for public distribution and use, at least |
| 224 | for non-commercial purposes. I have confirmed this assumption with |
| 225 | the authors of the lists, whenever they were known. |
| 226 | |
| 227 | Therefore, it is safe to assume that the wordlists in this package |
| 228 | can also be freely copied, distributed, modified, and used for |
| 229 | personal, educational, and research purposes. (Use of these files in |
| 230 | commercial products may require written permission from DEC and/or |
| 231 | the authors of the original lists.) |
| 232 | |
| 233 | Whenever you distribute any of these wordlists, please distribute |
| 234 | also the accompanying README file. If you distribute a modified |
| 235 | copy of one of these wordlists, please include the original README |
| 236 | file with a note explaining your modifications. Your users will |
| 237 | surely appreciate that. |
| 238 | |
| 239 | (NO-)WARRANTY DISCLAIMER |
| 240 | |
| 241 | These files, like the original wordlists on which they are based, |
| 242 | are still very incomplete, uneven, and inconsitent, and probably |
| 243 | contain many errors. They are offered "as is" without any warranty |
| 244 | of correctness or fitness for any particular purpose. Neither I nor |
| 245 | my employer can be held responsible for any losses or damages that |
| 246 | may result from their use. |
| 247 | |
| 248 | However since this Word List is used in the linux.words package which |
| 249 | the author claims is free of any copyright I assume it is OK to use |
| 250 | for most purposes. If you want to use this in a commercial project |
| 251 | and this concerns you the information from the DEC word list can |
| 252 | easily be removed without much sacrifice in quality as only the name |
| 253 | lists were used. |
| 254 | |
| 255 | The file special-jargon.50 uses common.lst and word.lst from the |
| 256 | "Unofficial Jargon File Word Lists" which is derived from "The Jargon |
| 257 | File". All of which is in the Public Domain. This file also contain |
| 258 | a few extra UNIX terms which are found in the file "unix-terms" in the |
| 259 | special/ directory. |
| 260 | |
| 261 | The 60 level includes Brian's frequency class 0 and all words |
| 262 | appearing in at least 2 of the 12 dictionaries as indicated by the |
| 263 | 12Dicts package. A large number of names are also included: The 4,946 |
| 264 | female names and 3,897 male names from the MWords package and the |
| 265 | files "computer.names", "misc.names", and "org.names" from the DEC |
| 266 | package. |
| 267 | |
| 268 | The 65 level includes words found in the Ispell "medium" word list. |
| 269 | The Ispell word lists are under the same copyright of Ispell itself |
| 270 | which is: |
| 271 | |
| 272 | Copyright 1993, Geoff Kuenning, Granada Hills, CA |
| 273 | All rights reserved. |
| 274 | |
| 275 | Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without |
| 276 | modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions |
| 277 | are met: |
| 278 | |
| 279 | 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright |
| 280 | notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. |
| 281 | 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright |
| 282 | notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the |
| 283 | documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. |
| 284 | 3. All modifications to the source code must be clearly marked as |
| 285 | such. Binary redistributions based on modified source code |
| 286 | must be clearly marked as modified versions in the documentation |
| 287 | and/or other materials provided with the distribution. |
| 288 | 4. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software |
| 289 | must display the following acknowledgment: |
| 290 | This product includes software developed by Geoff Kuenning and |
| 291 | other unpaid contributors. |
| 292 | 5. The name of Geoff Kuenning may not be used to endorse or promote |
| 293 | products derived from this software without specific prior |
| 294 | written permission. |
| 295 | |
| 296 | THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY GEOFF KUENNING AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS |
| 297 | IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT |
| 298 | LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS |
| 299 | FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL GEOFF |
| 300 | KUENNING OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, |
| 301 | INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, |
| 302 | BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; |
| 303 | LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER |
| 304 | CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT |
| 305 | LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN |
| 306 | ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE |
| 307 | POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. |
| 308 | |
| 309 | The 70 level includes the 74,550 common dictionary words and the 21,986 names |
| 310 | list from the MWords package. The common dictionary words, like those |
| 311 | from the 12Dicts package, have had all likely inflections added. |
| 312 | |
| 313 | The 80 level includes the ENABLE word list, all the lists in the |
| 314 | ENABLE supplement package (except for ABLE), the "UK Advanced Cryptics |
| 315 | Dictionary" (UKACD), the list of signature words in from YAWL package, |
| 316 | and the 10,196 places list from the MWords package. |
| 317 | |
| 318 | The ENABLE package, mainted by M\Cooper <thegrendel@theriver.com>, |
| 319 | is in the Public Domain: |
| 320 | |
| 321 | The ENABLE master word list, WORD.LST, is herewith formally released |
| 322 | into the Public Domain. Anyone is free to use it or distribute it in |
| 323 | any manner they see fit. No fee or registration is required for its |
| 324 | use nor are "contributions" solicited (if you feel you absolutely |
| 325 | must contribute something for your own peace of mind, the authors of |
| 326 | the ENABLE list ask that you make a donation on their behalf to your |
| 327 | favorite charity). This word list is our gift to the Scrabble |
| 328 | community, as an alternate to "official" word lists. Game designers |
| 329 | may feel free to incorporate the WORD.LST into their games. Please |
| 330 | mention the source and credit us as originators of the list. Note |
| 331 | that if you, as a game designer, use the WORD.LST in your product, |
| 332 | you may still copyright and protect your product, but you may *not* |
| 333 | legally copyright or in any way restrict redistribution of the |
| 334 | WORD.LST portion of your product. This *may* under law restrict your |
| 335 | rights to restrict your users' rights, but that is only fair. |
| 336 | |
| 337 | UKACD, by J Ross Beresford <ross@bryson.demon.co.uk>, is under the |
| 338 | following copyright: |
| 339 | |
| 340 | Copyright (c) J Ross Beresford 1993-1999. All Rights Reserved. |
| 341 | |
| 342 | The following restriction is placed on the use of this publication: |
| 343 | if The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary is used in a software package |
| 344 | or redistributed in any form, the copyright notice must be |
| 345 | prominently displayed and the text of this document must be included |
| 346 | verbatim. |
| 347 | |
| 348 | There are no other restrictions: I would like to see the list |
| 349 | distributed as widely as possible. |
| 350 | |
| 351 | The 95 level includes the 354,984 single words and 256,772 compound |
| 352 | words from the MWords package, ABLE.LST from the ENABLE Supplement, |
| 353 | and some additional words found in my part-of-speech database that |
| 354 | were not found anywhere else. |
| 355 | |
| 356 | Accent information was taken from UKACD. |
| 357 | |
| 358 | My VARCON package was used to create the American, British, and |
| 359 | Canadian word list. |
| 360 | |
| 361 | Since the original word lists used used in the |
| 362 | VARCON package came from the Ispell distribution they are under the |
| 363 | Ispell copyright. |
| 364 | |
| 365 | The variant word lists were created from a list of variants found in |
| 366 | the 12dicts supplement package as well as a list of variants I created |
| 367 | myself. |
| 368 | |
| 369 | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- |
| 370 | en_GB |
| 371 | |
| 372 | This dictionary was initially based on a subset of the |
| 373 | original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for |
| 374 | Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original |
| 375 | LGPL licence. |
| 376 | |
| 377 | It has been extensively updated by David Bartlett, Brian Kelk |
| 378 | and Andrew Brown: |
| 379 | - numerous Americanism have been removed |
| 380 | - numerous American spellings have been corrected |
| 381 | - missing words have been added |
| 382 | - many errors have been corrected |
| 383 | - compound hyphenated words have been added where appropriate |
| 384 | |
| 385 | Valuable inputs to this process were received from many other |
| 386 | people - far too numerous to name. Serious thanks to you all |
| 387 | for your greatly appreciated help. |
| 388 | |
| 389 | This word list is intended to be a good representation of |
| 390 | current modern British English and thus it should be a good |
| 391 | basis for Commonwealth English in most countries of the world |
| 392 | outside North America. |
| 393 | |
| 394 | The affix file has been created completely from scratch |
| 395 | by David Bartlett and Andrew Brown, based on the published |
| 396 | rules for MySpell and is also provided under the LGPL. |
| 397 | |
| 398 | In creating the affix rules an attempt has been made to |
| 399 | reproduce the most general rules for English word |
| 400 | formation, rather than merely use it as a means to |
| 401 | compress the size of the dictionary. It is hoped that this |
| 402 | will facilitate future localisation to other variants of |
| 403 | English. |
| 404 | |
| 405 | Please let David Bartlett <dbartlett@iee.org> know of any |
| 406 | errors that you find. |
| 407 | |
| 408 | The current release is R 1.14, 15/12/02 or later |
| 409 | |
| 410 | -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- |
| 411 | en_NZ |
| 412 | |
| 413 | I. Copyright |
| 414 | II. Copying (Licence) |
| 415 | ---------------------------- |
| 416 | |
| 417 | I. Copyright |
| 418 | |
| 419 | NZ English Dictionary v0.9 beta - Build 06SEP03 |
| 420 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 421 | NB This is an initial version, please check: |
| 422 | http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/download_dictionary.html |
| 423 | or |
| 424 | http://www.girlza.com/dictionary/download.html |
| 425 | for a final version, after a little while (no hurry). |
| 426 | |
| 427 | This dictionary is based on the en_GB Myspell dictionary |
| 428 | which in turn was initially based on a subset of the |
| 429 | original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for |
| 430 | Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original |
| 431 | LGPL licence. |
| 432 | |
| 433 | |
| 434 | Introduction |
| 435 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 436 | en_NZ.dic has been altered to include New Zealand places, |
| 437 | including major cities and towns, and major suburbs. It |
| 438 | also contains NZ words, organisations and expressions. |
| 439 | |
| 440 | en_NZ.aff has had a few REPlace strings added, but is |
| 441 | basically unchanged. |
| 442 | |
| 443 | |
| 444 | Acknowledgements |
| 445 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 446 | Thanks must go to the original creators of the British |
| 447 | dictionary, David Bartlett, Brian Kelk and Andrew Brown. |
| 448 | |
| 449 | I wouldn't have started this without seeing the Australian |
| 450 | dictionary, thanks Kelvin Eldridge, Jean Hollis Weber and |
| 451 | David Wilson. |
| 452 | |
| 453 | And thank you to all who've contributed to OpenOffice.org. |
| 454 | |
| 455 | |
| 456 | License |
| 457 | ~~~~~~~ |
| 458 | This dictionary is covered by the GNU Lesser General Public |
| 459 | License, viewable at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html |
| 460 | |
| 461 | |
| 462 | Issues |
| 463 | ~~~~~~ |
| 464 | Many of the proper nouns already in the dictionary do not have |
| 465 | an affix for 's. |
| 466 | All my new words start after the z's of the original dictionary. |
| 467 | |
| 468 | |
| 469 | Contact |
| 470 | ~~~~~~~ |
| 471 | Contact Tristan Burtenshaw (hooty@slingshot.co.nz) with any words, |
| 472 | places or other suggestions for the dictionary. |
| 473 | |
| 474 | |
| 475 | |
| 476 | II. Copying |
| 477 | |
| 478 | GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE |
| 479 | Version 2.1, February 1999 |
| 480 | |
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