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 ===== License ===== ===== License =====
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 +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,
 +Andrew Brown and Marco A.G.Pinto:
 + — Numerous Americanisms 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;
 + — Thousands of proper/places names have been added.
 +
 +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 wordlist 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.
 +
 +---
 +
 +This is a locally hosted copy of the English dictionaries with fixed dash handling and new ligature and phonetic suggestion support extension:
 +http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/node/3785
 +
 Original version of the en_GB dictionary: Original version of the en_GB dictionary:
 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi/id=72145 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi/id=72145
  
-OpenOffice.org patch and morphological extension+OpenOffice.org patch and morphological extension.
  
 The morphological extension based on Wordlist POS and AGID data The morphological extension based on Wordlist POS and AGID data
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 Other fixes: Other fixes:
  
-OOo Issue 48060 - add numbers with affixes by COMPOUNDRULE (1st, 111th, 1990s etc.)+OOo Issue 48060 — add numbers with affixes by COMPOUNDRULE (1st, 111th, 1990s etc.)
 OOo Issue 29112, 55498 - add NOSUGGEST flags to taboo words OOo Issue 29112, 55498 - add NOSUGGEST flags to taboo words
 New REP items (better suggestions for accented words and a few mistakes) New REP items (better suggestions for accented words and a few mistakes)
-OOo Issue 63541 - remove *dessicated+OOo Issue 63541 — remove *dessicated
  
-2008-12-18 nemeth AT OOo+2008-12-18 — NOSUGGEST, NUMBER/COMPOUNDRULE patches (nemeth AT OOo) 
 +2010-03-09 (nemeth AT OOo) 
 + — UTF-8 encoded dictionary: 
 +      — fix em-dash problem of OOo 3.2 by BREAK 
 +      — suggesting words with typographical apostrophes 
 +      — recognizing words with Unicode f ligatures 
 + — add phonetic suggestion (© 2000 Björn Jacke)
  
-Original license:+2013-08-25 — GB forked by Marco A.G.Pinto 
 +2016-06-10 — NOSUGGEST added to this clean version of the GB .AFF (Marco A.G.Pinto) 
 +2016-06-21 — COMPOUNDING added to this clean version of the GB .AFF (Áron Budea) 
 +2016-08-01 — GB changelog is no longer included in the README file 
 +2016-09-11 — .AFF + .DIC now use Linux line endings 
 +2017-10-08 — Mozilla: used <em:maxVersion>*</em:maxVersion> to work with all future versions 
 +2017-12-16 — Added to the .AFF: 
 +             ICONV 1 
 +             ICONV ’ ' 
 +          Thanks to Jeroen Ooms 
 +2018-05-01 — Andrew Ziem suggested a list of 328 names of famous people on Kevin's GitHub: 
 +             "These 328 name tokens were derived from the top 100 lists in Google Trends via 
 + this repository (https://github.com/az0/google-trend-names). The geography was 
 + set to US, and it spanned dates from 2004 to 2018."  
 +2018-08-01 — Slightly higher quality icon 
 +    — Added tons of drugs names supplied by the user Andrew Ziem on Kevin's GitHub 
 +    — Fixed/improved flag "5": "women's" was missing 
 +2018-06-01 
 +to 
 +2018-09-01 — Added places from New Zealand/UK (England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland): 
 + On V2.61–2.64 I included tons of place names. 
 + My scientist friend, Peter McGavin, told me that in NZ they use British, so I decided 
 + to do something about it. I did the same for UK. I searched on Wikipedia for "towns", 
 + "counties", "villages", "boroughs", "suburbs", etc. and based me on: 
 +   — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_England; 
 +   — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_in_New_Zealand; 
 +   — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civil_parishes_in_England; 
 +   — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civil_parishes_in_Scotland; 
 +   — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_in_Scotland; 
 +   — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communities_in_Wales; 
 +   — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_Wales; 
 +   — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_towns_and_villages_in_Northern_Ireland; 
 +   — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counties_of_Northern_Ireland; 
 +   — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Suburbs_in_New_Zealand; 
 +   — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Church_of_Scotland_parishes. 
 + Also, added places sent to me by Peter C.: 
 + © OpenStreetMap contributors: www.openstreetmap.org/copyright. 
 + © The Clergy of the Church of England Database Project, 2005.
  
-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 +MARCO A.G.PINTO: 
-and Andrew Brown: +Since the dictionary hasn't been updated for many years, 
-- numerous Americanism have been removed +I forked it to add new words and fixes.
-- 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  +I even added words such as common names of software and hardware.
-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 +I grabbed Mozilla's version since it wasn't obfuscated. Alexandro Colorado and I 
-current modern British English and thus it should be a good  +tried to unmunch the OpenOffice version but all we got was rubbish.
-basis for Commonwealth English in most countries of the world  +
-outside North America.+
  
-The affix file has been created completely from scratch +The dictionary icon in the Extension Manager was designed by Pedro Marques.
-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  +The sources used to verify the spelling of the words I included in the dictionary: 
-reproduce the most general rules for English word + 1) Oxford Dictionaries; 
-formation, rather than merely use it as a means to + 2) Collins Dictionary; 
-compress the size of the dictionary. It is hoped that this + 3) Macmillan Dictionary; 
-will facilitate future localisation to other variants of + 4) Wiktionary (used with caution); 
-English.+ 5) Wikipedia (used with caution); 
 + 6) Physical dictionaries. 
 + 
 +Main difficulties developing this dictionary: 
 + 1) Proper names; 
 + 2) Possessive forms; 
 + 3) Plurals. 
 + 
 +Please let Marco A.G.Pinto know of any errors that you find: 
 +E-mail: 
 +[email protected] 
 + 
 +Site: 
 +http://proofingtoolgui.org 
 + 
 +FAQ: 
 +http://proofingtoolgui.org/faq.html 
 + 
 +FAQ ("movie", "automobile", "airplane", "hardcover" and "bookstore"): 
 +http://proofingtoolgui.org/faq.html#7 
 +Notice: Due to complaints, "movie" was added on V2.57 since it is a widely used word.
  
-Please let David Bartlett <dwb@openoffice.org> know of any  +Changelog: 
-errors that you find.+http://proofingtoolgui.org/en_GB_CHANGES.txt
  
-The current release is R 1.20, 30/11/2006+Nightly changes (GitHub): 
 +https://github.com/marcoagpinto/aoo-mozilla-en-dict
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 ===== How to Install ===== ===== How to Install =====
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 For more information about installing dictionaries, check [[plugins:spell-checker|Spell Checker plugin]] description. For more information about installing dictionaries, check [[plugins:spell-checker|Spell Checker plugin]] description.
  
 +#dictionary