This directory contains numerous special word list which I have
created myself.

abbreviations:

A list of commonly used abbreviations and acronyms, especially in
conversational text such as email.

abbreviations-also:

Some additional abbreviations which I did not want to include at the
lower word list sizes.

frequent.lst:

A combination of the two top 1000 lists found in the mwords package.
I carefully went though and weeded out words which where an artifact
of the corpus used.

letters:

A list of single letters and there inflected forms

names.from_alan_beale:

A list of names (version 5.2) sent to be by Alan Beale <biljir@pobox.com>:

  I have a large list of proper names, whose origins are in the
  linux-words proper names, but which both removes a lot of (what I
  considered to be) junk entries, and adds a lot of names of various
  sorts, notably names of commercial products and noteworthy
  historical personages.

never-abbreviations:

A list of words that I do not consider abbreviations.

never-variant:

A list of words I do not consider variants.

not-possessive:

A list of nouns which should not take a possessive form with "'s".

proper-names:

A list of additional proper names.

roman-numerals:

A list of roman numerous originally extracted from the ispell word
lists.

signature:

A small list of words that I thought really out to be at the 35 level.

unix-terms:

A list of commonly used unix terms often used as regular english words
by geeks.

variant:

A list of words which the 12dicts package does not consider variants
but I do.