X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=7.1%2Fr%2Falt12dicts%2FREADME;fp=7.1%2Fr%2Falt12dicts%2FREADME;h=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hb=b13ea8a082364672c6de2b010e558211ff52ec9a;hp=c2d10ea6ce59ba2196698a79df4e863aed6d79c9;hpb=01534a94130c1f5a3a230cf4fe18365a235ba271;p=deb_pkgs%2Fscowl.git diff --git a/7.1/r/alt12dicts/README b/7.1/r/alt12dicts/README deleted file mode 100644 index c2d10ea..0000000 --- a/7.1/r/alt12dicts/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,183 +0,0 @@ -Unofficial Alternate 12Dicts package (Alt12Dicts) -Files by Alan Beale -Packaged by Kevin Atkinson - -Revision 4 -August 6, 2004 - -The files contained in this archive are the result of a rather -extensive conversation between me (Kevin Atkinson) and Alan Beale, the -author of the 12Dicts package. I can be contacted at kevina@gnu.org -and Alan Beale can be contacted at biljir@pobox.com. This archive -contains almost all the information in the official 12Dicts package -but in a different format as well as a good deal of additional -information. However it is not meant as a replacement for the -official 12Dicts package. It simply offers the information in a -different way. - -This package corresponds to Version 4.0 of the official 12Dicts package. - -The latest version of this package and the official 12Dicts package can -be found at http://aspell.sourceforge.net/wl/. - -The file README-orig contains the original Readme file distributed -with the official 12Dicts package. README-infl contains the Readme -file for 2of12infl.txt and finally README-agid contains the Readme for -AGID which 2of12infl.txt is based on. - -All of these files have been explicitly placed in the Public Domain by -Alan Beale. - - -2of12full.txt description: - -The file 2of12full.txt contains the all words appearing in more than -than one of Alan Beale's source dictionaries. Each line contains four -numbers, being the total number of dictionaries, the non-variant -entries, the variant entries, and the non-American entries. Counts of -zero are replaced by hyphens. For instance, the entry - - 7: - 2# 5& aeroplane - -indicates that the word "aeroplane" is listed in 7 of the dictionaries. -None list it as a primary American word, 2 list it as a variant form, -and 5 list it as a non-American word. Note that words may be marked -with a "&" for either of 2 reasons. They may represent a non-American -spelling of an American word, such as "aeroplane" or "gaol", or they -may represent a word not normally used in American English, such as -"bloke" or "lorry". - -Words marked with a colon (":") after it are abbrivations which are -entirely lower-case and alphabetic. - -This file contains almost all the information found in the normal -12Dicts package except for the marking of "second class", the -inclusion of "signature words" which did not appear in at least two -dictionaries. A second class word is a word that that an inflection -which was defined in the same entry as the base word, is a derived -word (-ly, -ness or -er/or) which was not defined in a separate entry, -or appeared in a list of undefined words with a common prefix, such as -un- or re-. - - -signature.txt description: - -The file signature.txt contains a list of signature words. Signature -words are words are words which failed are not in at least 6 -dictionaries but Alan Beale thought should be included at the 6of12 -level (see README-orig). Examples of some of the sorts of words are -included are: - -1. Words of the same category as other included words. An example is - the astrological sign "Cancer", which alone of all the astro- - logical signs fails to appear in 6 or more of the dictionaries. - Similarly added were the omitted holidays "Thanksgiving" and - "Valentine's Day". -2. Vulgarities, sexual terms and insults. Some such words were - already included, but most of the source dictionaries were quite - squeamish about them. These words are very widely known indeed; - I hold that any list of "common" words which does not include the - infamous f-word is simply discredited thereby. Some may feel that - it would have been better to leave some or all of these terms - unmentioned. Nevertheless, the expression of blasphemy, - unwarranted contempt, and perverse lust, whether in words or in - deeds, is a very human trait. Suppressing the evidence of these - aspects of the human condition in our language makes no more sense - than excluding "leprosy", "gangrene" and "dementia", no matter how - unpleasant they may be to contemplate. -3. Conventional conversational phrases so common as to be practically - invisible to native speakers. Examples are "thank you", "good - night", "uh-huh", "of course" and "gesundheit". -4. Sports terminology, especially for football and baseball. - - -signature2.txt description: - -The file signature2.txt contains inflections of irregular verbs not -explicitly mentioned in 2 source dictionaries, such as "outfought" and -"reheard". - - -variants.txt description: - -The variants.txt file contains a subset of the words appearing in at -least one of the 12 source dictionaries marked as variants or -non-American. This list contains only the words which are spelling -variants, words which represent different ways of saying the same -thing (such as "henceforward" as a variant of "henceforth") and -non-American words without a similar American form (such as "telly") -have been removed. Each entry is followed by a tab, and a notation -indicating which of several classes the word falls into. To describe -the classes, it is best to do a little algebra. Let NV be the total -number of non-variants, A the number of American variants, B the -number of non-American variants, and V=A+B. Then the following -annotations are to be interpreted as follows: - -#! - A >= B, NV = 0 -&! - A < B, NV = 0 -# - A >= B, V > NV -& - A < B, V > NV -#? - A >= B, 0.65*NV < V <= NV -&? - A < B, 0.65*NV < V <= NV - -Simplifying, the choice between # and & indicates which variety of -variant dominates, while ! and ? indicate a stronger or weaker than -average agreement on variance. - -Additional notes on the list from Alan: - - I should note a couple other characteristics of this file. First of - all, there are cases where spellings exist which are clearly - variants of one another, but where this is not recognized by the - source dictionaries. An example is the pair "levelheaded" and - "level-headed". These are clearly the same word, but none of my - sources lists both of them. I have chosen not to go beyond the - source dictionaries and put such words on the variants list, even in - obvious cases like this one. - - I should also note that there are cases where the question of - whether 2 words are spelling variants or actually different words is - not easy to answer. For instance, consider the pairs - "lengthways"/"lengthwise" or "toward"/"towards". I've simply made - whatever decision seemed best to me in cases like this ("lengthways" - is a variant, "towards" is not), but recognize that any other - observer (who could bring himself to care) would be likely to - occasionally disagree. - - -abbr.txt description: - -This file contains (almost) all the abbreviations and acronyms from -the 12Dicts sources. Abbreviations which also in a list of common -personal names (of about the same completeness as the ESL dictionaries) -are marked with a tilda ("~") after it. There are still likely to be -some abbreviations not marked with a tilda that match less common -names. - -Additional notes from Alan: - - For words containing upper-case, I [Alan Beale] had not recorded - whether a word was an abbreviation, so I was forced to remove the - non-abbreviations from the list by hand. Because of the need to - remove non-abbreviations, I limited myself to consideration of - upper-case words of 6 or fewer characters. It is possible that a - small number of acronyms or abbreviations longer than 6 characters - might have been missed. - - -variant-notes.txt description: - -The file variant-notes.txt contains some additional notes on -questionable variants sent to me when I pointed out that nought was -not marked as a variant. - - -2of12full.txt description: - -See README-infl - - -2of4brif.txt, 3esl.txt, and 5desk.txt description: - -These files are identical to the orignal files in the 12Dicts package. -See README-orig for more info.