3 2006-02-07 nemeth AT OOo
5 OOo Issue 48060 - add ordinal numbers with COMPOUNDRULE (1st, 111th etc.)
6 OOo Issue 29112, 55498 - add NOSUGGEST flags to taboo words
10 This dictionary was initially based on a subset of the
11 original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for
12 Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original
15 It has been extensively updated by David Bartlett, Brian Kelk
17 - numerous Americanism have been removed
18 - numerous American spellings have been corrected
19 - missing words have been added
20 - many errors have been corrected
21 - compound hyphenated words have been added where appropriate
23 Valuable inputs to this process were received from many other
24 people - far too numerous to name. Serious thanks to you all
25 for your greatly appreciated help.
27 This word list is intended to be a good representation of
28 current modern British English and thus it should be a good
29 basis for Commonwealth English in most countries of the world
30 outside North America.
32 The affix file has been created completely from scratch
33 by David Bartlett and Andrew Brown, based on the published
34 rules for MySpell and is also provided under the LGPL.
36 In creating the affix rules an attempt has been made to
37 reproduce the most general rules for English word
38 formation, rather than merely use it as a means to
39 compress the size of the dictionary. It is hoped that this
40 will facilitate future localisation to other variants of
43 Please let David Bartlett <dwb@openoffice.org> know of any
46 The current release is R 1.18, 11/04/05