| This dictionary was initially based on a subset of the |
| original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for |
| Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original |
| LGPL licence. |
| |
| It has been extensively updated by David Bartlett, Brian Kelk |
| and Andrew Brown: |
| - numerous Americanism have been removed |
| - numerous American spellings have been corrected |
| - missing words have been added |
| - many errors have been corrected |
| - compound hyphenated words have been added where appropriate |
| |
| Valuable inputs to this process were received from many other |
| people - far too numerous to name. Serious thanks to you all |
| for your greatly appreciated help. |
| |
| This word list is intended to be a good representation of |
| current modern British English and thus it should be a good |
| basis for Commonwealth English in most countries of the world |
| outside North America. |
| |
| The affix file has been created completely from scratch |
| by David Bartlett and Andrew Brown, based on the published |
| rules for MySpell and is also provided under the LGPL. |
| |
| In creating the affix rules an attempt has been made to |
| reproduce the most general rules for English word |
| formation, rather than merely use it as a means to |
| compress the size of the dictionary. It is hoped that this |
| will facilitate future localisation to other variants of |
| English. |
| |
| Please let David Bartlett <dwb@openoffice.org> know of any |
| errors that you find. |
| |
| The current release is R 1.18, 11/04/05 |
