-British English thesaurus for openoffice.org v2.
-
-This has been created using the wordnet thesaurus supplied with
-openoffce and is therefore sill covered by the wordnet license, a
-copy of which should be enclosed. I would appreciate it my work
-was acknowledged by a reference to brit-thesaurus.sourceforge.net.
-when distributing this or derived work.
-
-This is a fairly conservative modification. I am not a linguist,
-and have changed only the obvious words from the American to
-British spelling. I have been guided heavily by the openoffice
-spell checker, which allows some words with both -ise and -ize,
-so I have left them both in. Also the thesaurus contains many
-words that are not in the spell checker, so I have left them
-as is (e.g. where a word ending -ize was still not recognised
-when it ended -ise)
-
-Since the original contained both British and American spellings,
-the entries for (say) color and colour have been merged. This may
-not have been done very well, though on most occasions they were
-very similar or the same.
-
-When the Meaning was the same as the original word, it was removed
-and the next word was used in the hope that it would give more of
-an idea as to what the rest of the synonyms would be.
-
-If you use this, I would appreciate comments in the foums at
-sourceforge, good or bad, so I can improve the work.
-
-PaulH
+Original version of the en_GB dictionary:
+http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi/id=72145
+
+OpenOffice.org patch and morphological extension
+
+The morphological extension based on Wordlist POS and AGID data
+created by Kevin Atkinson and released on http://wordlist.sourceforge.net.
+
+Other fixes:
+
+OOo Issue 48060 - add numbers with affixes by COMPOUNDRULE (1st, 111th, 1990s etc.)
+OOo Issue 29112, 55498 - add NOSUGGEST flags to taboo words
+New REP items (better suggestions for accented words and a few mistakes)
+OOo Issue 63541 - remove *dessicated
+
+2008-12-18 nemeth AT OOo
+
+Original license:
+
+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 1.20, 30/11/2006
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