1 Original version of the en_GB dictionary:
2 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi/id=72145
4 OpenOffice.org patch and morphological extension
6 The morphological extension based on Wordlist POS and AGID data
7 created by Kevin Atkinson and released on http://wordlist.sourceforge.net.
11 OOo Issue 48060 - add numbers with affixes by COMPOUNDRULE (1st, 111th, 1990s etc.)
12 OOo Issue 29112, 55498 - add NOSUGGEST flags to taboo words
13 New REP items (better suggestions for accented words and a few mistakes)
14 OOo Issue 63541 - remove *dessicated
16 2008-12-18 nemeth AT OOo
20 This dictionary was initially based on a subset of the
21 original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for
22 Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original
25 It has been extensively updated by David Bartlett, Brian Kelk
27 - numerous Americanism have been removed
28 - numerous American spellings have been corrected
29 - missing words have been added
30 - many errors have been corrected
31 - compound hyphenated words have been added where appropriate
33 Valuable inputs to this process were received from many other
34 people - far too numerous to name. Serious thanks to you all
35 for your greatly appreciated help.
37 This word list is intended to be a good representation of
38 current modern British English and thus it should be a good
39 basis for Commonwealth English in most countries of the world
40 outside North America.
42 The affix file has been created completely from scratch
43 by David Bartlett and Andrew Brown, based on the published
44 rules for MySpell and is also provided under the LGPL.
46 In creating the affix rules an attempt has been made to
47 reproduce the most general rules for English word
48 formation, rather than merely use it as a means to
49 compress the size of the dictionary. It is hoped that this
50 will facilitate future localisation to other variants of
53 Please let David Bartlett <dwb@openoffice.org> know of any
56 The current release is R 1.20, 30/11/2006