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 This dictionary was initially based on a subset of the This dictionary was initially based on a subset of the
 original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for
-Pspell and  Aspell and thus is covered by his original+Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original
 LGPL licence.  LGPL licence. 
  
-It has been extensively updated by David Bartlett, Brian Kelk +It has been extensively updated by David Bartlett, Brian Kelk, 
-and Andrew Brown: +Andrew Brown and Marco A.G.Pinto: 
-- Numerous Americanism have been removed; + — Numerous Americanisms have been removed; 
-- Numerous American spellings have been corrected; + — Numerous American spellings have been corrected; 
-- Missing words have been added; + — Missing words have been added; 
-- Many errors have been corrected; + — Many errors have been corrected; 
-- Compound hyphenated words have been added where appropriate.+ — 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 Valuable inputs to this process were received from many other
-people - far too numerous to name. Serious thanks to you all+people — far too numerous to name. Serious thanks to you all
 for your greatly appreciated help. for your greatly appreciated help.
  
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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 - NOSUGGEST, NUMBER/COMPOUNDRULE patches (nemeth AT OOo)+2008-12-18 — NOSUGGEST, NUMBER/COMPOUNDRULE patches (nemeth AT OOo)
 2010-03-09 (nemeth AT OOo) 2010-03-09 (nemeth AT OOo)
- - UTF-8 encoded dictionary: + — UTF-8 encoded dictionary: 
-      - fix em-dash problem of OOo 3.2 by BREAK +      — fix em-dash problem of OOo 3.2 by BREAK 
-      - suggesting words with typographical apostrophes +      — suggesting words with typographical apostrophes 
-      - recognizing words with Unicode f ligatures +      — recognizing words with Unicode f ligatures 
- - add phonetic suggestion (Copyright (C) 2000 Björn Jacke, see the end of the file)+ — add phonetic suggestion (© 2000 Björn Jacke) 
 + 
 +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.
  
- 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. 
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 MARCO A.G.PINTO: MARCO A.G.PINTO:
 Since the dictionary hasn't been updated for many years, Since the dictionary hasn't been updated for many years,
-I decided to fork it in order to add new words and fixes.+I forked it to add new words and fixes.
  
 I even added words such as common names of software and hardware. I even added words such as common names of software and hardware.
  
 I grabbed Mozilla's version since it wasn't obfuscated. Alexandro Colorado and I I grabbed Mozilla's version since it wasn't obfuscated. Alexandro Colorado and I
-tried to unmunch the OpenOffice version but all we got was garbage.+tried to unmunch the OpenOffice version but all we got was rubbish.
  
 The dictionary icon in the Extension Manager was designed by Pedro Marques. The dictionary icon in the Extension Manager was designed by Pedro Marques.
  
 The sources used to verify the spelling of the words I included in the dictionary: The sources used to verify the spelling of the words I included in the dictionary:
-1) Oxford Dictionaries; + 1) Oxford Dictionaries; 
-2) Collins Dictionary; + 2) Collins Dictionary; 
-3) Macmillan Dictionary; + 3) Macmillan Dictionary; 
-4) Wiktionary (used with caution); + 4) Wiktionary (used with caution); 
-5) Wikipedia (used with caution); + 5) Wikipedia (used with caution); 
-6) Physical dictionaries+ 6) Physical dictionaries.
  
 Main difficulties developing this dictionary: Main difficulties developing this dictionary:
-1) Proper names; + 1) Proper names; 
-2) Possessive forms; + 2) Possessive forms; 
-3) Plurals.+ 3) Plurals.
  
 Please let Marco A.G.Pinto know of any errors that you find: Please let Marco A.G.Pinto know of any errors that you find:
 E-mail: E-mail:
-marcoagpinto@mail.telepac.pt+marcoagpinto@sapo.pt
  
 Site: Site:
-http://marcoagpinto.cidadevirtual.pt/proofingtoolgui.html+http://proofingtoolgui.org
  
 FAQ: FAQ:
-http://marcoagpinto.cidadevirtual.pt/faq.html+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.
  
 Changelog: Changelog:
-http://marcoagpinto.cidadevirtual.pt/en_GB_CHANGES.txt+http://proofingtoolgui.org/en_GB_CHANGES.txt
  
 Nightly changes (GitHub): Nightly changes (GitHub):