1 Wordlist en_US spelling and morphological dictionary for OpenOffice.org
4 Based on Wordlist Hunspell dictionaries version 2008-12-05
5 and Wordlist POS and AGID data created by Kevin Atkinson
6 and released on http://wordlist.sourceforge.net.
10 OOo Issue 48060 - add numbers with affixes by COMPOUNDRULE (1st, 111th, 1990s etc.)
11 New REP items (better suggestions for accented words and a few mistakes)
12 OOo Issue 63541 - remove *dessicated, *dessication
14 László Németh <nemeth at OO.o>
20 README file for en_US and en_CA Hunspell dictionaries
22 These dictionaries are created using the speller/make-hunspell-dict
23 dictionary in SCOWL, SVN revision 74.
25 The NOSUGGEST flag was added to certain taboo words. While I made an
26 honest attempt to flag the strongest taboo words with the NOSUGGEST
27 flag, I MAKE NO GUARANTEE THAT I FLAGGED EVERY POSSIBLE TABOO WORD.
28 The list was originally derived from Németh László, however I removed
29 some words which, while being considered taboo by some dictionaries,
30 are not really considered swear words in today's society.
32 You can find SCOWL and friend at http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/.
33 Bug reports should go to the Issue Tracker found on the previously
34 mentioned web site. General discussion should go to the
35 wordlist-devel at sourceforge net mailing list.
37 COPYRIGHT, SOURCES, and CREDITS:
39 The en_US and en_CA dictionaries come directly from SCOWL (up to level
40 60) and is thus under the same copyright of SCOWL. The affix file is
41 a heavily modified version of the original english.aff file which was
42 released as part of Geoff Kuenning's Ispell and as such is covered by
43 his BSD license. Part of SCOWL is also based on Ispell thus the
44 Ispell copyright is included with the SCOWL copyright.
46 The collective work is Copyright 2000-2007 by Kevin Atkinson as well
47 as any of the copyrights mentioned below:
49 Copyright 2000-2007 by Kevin Atkinson
51 Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell these word
52 lists, the associated scripts, the output created from the scripts,
53 and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,
54 provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and
55 that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
56 supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations
57 about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided
58 "as is" without express or implied warranty.
60 Alan Beale <biljir@pobox.com> also deserves special credit as he has,
61 in addition to providing the 12Dicts package and being a major
62 contributor to the ENABLE word list, given me an incredible amount of
63 feedback and created a number of special lists (those found in the
64 Supplement) in order to help improve the overall quality of SCOWL.
66 The 10 level includes the 1000 most common English words (according to
67 the Moby (TM) Words II [MWords] package), a subset of the 1000 most
68 common words on the Internet (again, according to Moby Words II), and
69 frequently class 16 from Brian Kelk's "UK English Wordlist
70 with Frequency Classification".
72 The MWords package was explicitly placed in the public domain:
74 The Moby lexicon project is complete and has
75 been place into the public domain. Use, sell,
76 rework, excerpt and use in any way on any platform.
78 Placing this material on internal or public servers is
79 also encouraged. The compiler is not aware of any
80 export restrictions so freely distribute world-wide.
82 You can verify the public domain status by contacting
91 The "UK English Wordlist With Frequency Classification" is also in the
94 Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 20:27:21 +0100
95 From: Brian Kelk <Brian.Kelk@cl.cam.ac.uk>
97 > I was wondering what the copyright status of your "UK English
98 > Wordlist With Frequency Classification" word list as it seems to
99 > be lacking any copyright notice.
101 There were many many sources in total, but any text marked
102 "copyright" was avoided. Locally-written documentation was one
103 source. An earlier version of the list resided in a filespace called
104 PUBLIC on the University mainframe, because it was considered public
107 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:31:34 +0100
109 > So are you saying your word list is also in the public domain?
111 That is the intention.
113 The 20 level includes frequency classes 7-15 from Brian's word list.
115 The 35 level includes frequency classes 2-6 and words appearing in at
116 least 11 of 12 dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts package. All
117 words from the 12Dicts package have had likely inflections added via
118 my inflection database.
120 The 12Dicts package and Supplement is in the Public Domain.
122 The WordNet database, which was used in the creation of the
123 Inflections database, is under the following copyright:
125 This software and database is being provided to you, the LICENSEE,
126 by Princeton University under the following license. By obtaining,
127 using and/or copying this software and database, you agree that you
128 have read, understood, and will comply with these terms and
131 Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and
132 database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or
133 royalty is hereby granted, provided that you agree to comply with
134 the following copyright notice and statements, including the
135 disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software,
136 database and documentation, including modifications that you make
137 for internal use or for distribution.
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150 The name of Princeton University or Princeton may not be used in
151 advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software
152 and/or database. Title to copyright in this software, database and
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156 The 40 level includes words from Alan's 3esl list found in version 4.0
157 of his 12dicts package. Like his other stuff the 3esl list is also in the
160 The 50 level includes Brian's frequency class 1, words words appearing
161 in at least 5 of 12 of the dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts
162 package, and uppercase words in at least 4 of the previous 12
163 dictionaries. A decent number of proper names is also included: The
164 top 1000 male, female, and Last names from the 1990 Census report; a
165 list of names sent to me by Alan Beale; and a few names that I added
166 myself. Finally a small list of abbreviations not commonly found in
167 other word lists is included.
169 The name files form the Census report is a government document which I
170 don't think can be copyrighted.
172 The file special-jargon.50 uses common.lst and word.lst from the
173 "Unofficial Jargon File Word Lists" which is derived from "The Jargon
174 File". All of which is in the Public Domain. This file also contain
175 a few extra UNIX terms which are found in the file "unix-terms" in the
178 The 55 level includes words from Alan's 2of4brif list found in version
179 4.0 of his 12dicts package. Like his other stuff the 2of4brif is also
180 in the public domain.
182 The 60 level includes Brian's frequency class 0 and all words
183 appearing in at least 2 of the 12 dictionaries as indicated by the
184 12Dicts package. A large number of names are also included: The 4,946
185 female names and the 3,897 male names from the MWords package.
187 The 70 level includes the 74,550 common dictionary words and the
188 21,986 names list from the MWords package The common dictionary words,
189 like those from the 12Dicts package, have had all likely inflections
190 added. The 70 level also included the 5desk list from version 4.0 of
191 the 12Dics package which is the public domain
193 The 80 level includes the ENABLE word list, all the lists in the
194 ENABLE supplement package (except for ABLE), the "UK Advanced Cryptics
195 Dictionary" (UKACD), the list of signature words in from YAWL package,
196 and the 10,196 places list from the MWords package.
198 The ENABLE package, mainted by M\Cooper <thegrendel@theriver.com>,
199 is in the Public Domain:
201 The ENABLE master word list, WORD.LST, is herewith formally released
202 into the Public Domain. Anyone is free to use it or distribute it in
203 any manner they see fit. No fee or registration is required for its
204 use nor are "contributions" solicited (if you feel you absolutely
205 must contribute something for your own peace of mind, the authors of
206 the ENABLE list ask that you make a donation on their behalf to your
207 favorite charity). This word list is our gift to the Scrabble
208 community, as an alternate to "official" word lists. Game designers
209 may feel free to incorporate the WORD.LST into their games. Please
210 mention the source and credit us as originators of the list. Note
211 that if you, as a game designer, use the WORD.LST in your product,
212 you may still copyright and protect your product, but you may *not*
213 legally copyright or in any way restrict redistribution of the
214 WORD.LST portion of your product. This *may* under law restrict your
215 rights to restrict your users' rights, but that is only fair.
217 UKACD, by J Ross Beresford <ross@bryson.demon.co.uk>, is under the
220 Copyright (c) J Ross Beresford 1993-1999. All Rights Reserved.
222 The following restriction is placed on the use of this publication:
223 if The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary is used in a software package
224 or redistributed in any form, the copyright notice must be
225 prominently displayed and the text of this document must be included
228 There are no other restrictions: I would like to see the list
229 distributed as widely as possible.
231 The 95 level includes the 354,984 single words and 256,772 compound
232 words from the MWords package, ABLE.LST from the ENABLE Supplement,
233 and some additional words found in my part-of-speech database that
234 were not found anywhere else.
236 Accent information was taken from UKACD.
238 My VARCON package was used to create the American, British, and
241 Since the original word lists used used in the VARCON package came
242 from the Ispell distribution they are under the Ispell copyright:
244 Copyright 1993, Geoff Kuenning, Granada Hills, CA
247 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
248 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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256 3. All modifications to the source code must be clearly marked as
257 such. Binary redistributions based on modified source code
258 must be clearly marked as modified versions in the documentation
259 and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
260 (clause 4 removed with permission from Geoff Kuenning)
261 5. The name of Geoff Kuenning may not be used to endorse or promote
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