1 This directory contains numerous special word list which I have
6 A list of commonly used abbreviations and acronyms, especially in
7 conversational text such as email.
11 Some additional abbreviations which I did not want to include at the
12 lower word list sizes.
16 A combination of the two top 1000 lists found in the mwords package.
17 I carefully went though and weeded out words which where an artifact
22 A list of single letters and there inflected forms
24 names.from_alan_beale:
26 A list of names (version 5.2) sent to be by Alan Beale <biljir@pobox.com>:
28 I have a large list of proper names, whose origins are in the
29 linux-words proper names, but which both removes a lot of (what I
30 considered to be) junk entries, and adds a lot of names of various
31 sorts, notably names of commercial products and noteworthy
32 historical personages.
36 A list of words that I do not consider abbreviations.
40 A list of words I do not consider variants.
44 A list of nouns which should not take a possessive form with "'s".
48 A list of additional proper names.
52 A list of roman numerous originally extracted from the ispell word
57 A small list of words that I thought really out to be at the 35 level.
61 Additional words to add at the respective level.
65 Words Marco A.G.Pinto proposed to add that Alan Beale also thought
66 should be added. Words with 3 stars or more (see
67 app.aspell.net:/lookup-freq) are added at the 60 and others at the 70
72 Words found in the Mozilla dictionary than Alan also approved of.
76 Non-signature words suggested for inclusion by others that are
77 recognized by most dictionaries but not all that common.
81 Words Marco A.G.Pinto and Alan Beale though should be added that I
82 (Kevin Atkinson) for one reason or another didn't want to add at the
83 60 level. The most likely reasons are that the word is too similar to
84 a more common word or a compound word that is normally spelled as two
85 words or with a hyphen.
89 Words that are Macro added to en_GB not in one of the above lists.
93 A list of commonly used unix terms often used as regular english words
98 A list of words which the 12dicts package does not consider variants
103 Normal words that just happen to start with an uppercase words and
104 have no relation to a proper name, for example OK AWOL
108 Words from "2800 Personality Trait Descriptors" (1967), see
109 https://sourceforge.net/p/wordlist/issues/60/
113 Words to exclude up to the specified level (and hence bump them to the
114 next level.) Used mostly for obscure words that are very similar to a
115 far more common word and hence could mask the misspelling of the more
120 List of words found in the hacker category that are not found anywhere
121 in Google Book's corpus (1980-2008) and thus should in all likelihood
122 not be included considering "words" such as FTPing, grepped, etc. are
127 Common prefixes that are often followed used with a dash. For example
128 "multi-". Note "pre" is left out as it is too close to "per" which is more
133 Parts of common (generally Latin) phrases that are not normal words
138 A list of extra Australian words added at the 35 level to the
139 "australian" spelling category.
144 A list of Chinese names from https://github.com/en-wl/wordlist/issues/203.
145 The ".also" file contains two word names I have not decided how to process.
149 Common words found in Software Development and Computer Science contexes.
153 U.S Urban areas as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau.
155 Source https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/reference/ua/ua_list_ua.txt (2019-08).
158 australian-towns-part:
160 List of cities in Australia from
161 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Australia_by_population