X-Git-Url: https://git.lyx.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=thes%2Finfo%2Fen-GB%2FREADME;h=221f66106c09e997a48662d863ca09c54a979905;hb=85bb0a814a1c83d292a9cc62a25e8a63dc2d1403;hp=763d28e46ae426b22663e8f3bafa3254dee07928;hpb=7b032a006d8356f83624f01c25ecf2526a025608;p=dictionaries.git diff --git a/thes/info/en-GB/README b/thes/info/en-GB/README index 763d28e..221f661 100644 --- a/thes/info/en-GB/README +++ b/thes/info/en-GB/README @@ -1,30 +1,56 @@ -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 know of any +errors that you find. + +The current release is R 1.20, 30/11/2006