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+Spell Checking Oriented Word Lists (SCOWL)
+Revision 6
+August 10, 2004
+by Kevin Atkinson
+
+The SCOWL is a collection of word lists split up in various sizes, and
+other categories, intended to be suitable for use in spell checkers.
+However, I am sure it will have numerous other uses as well.
+
+The latest version can be found at http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/
+
+The directory final/ contains the actual word lists broken up into
+various sizes and categories. The r/ directory contains Readmes from
+the various sources used to create this package.
+
+The other directories contain the necessary information to recreate the
+word lists from the raw data. Unless you are interested in improving the
+words lists you should not need to worry about what's here. See the
+section on recreating the words lists for more information on what's
+there.
+
+Except for the special word lists the files follow the following
+naming convention:
+ <spelling category>-<classification>.<size>
+Where the spelling category is one of
+ english, american, british, british_z, canadian,
+ variant_0, varaint_1, variant_2
+Classification is one of
+ abbreviations, contractions, proper-names, upper, words
+And size is one of
+ 10, 20, 35 (small), 40, 50 (medium), 55, 60, 70 (large),
+ 80 (huge), 95 (insane)
+The special word lists follow are in the following format:
+ special-<description>.<size>
+Where description is one of:
+ roman-numerals, hacker
+
+When combining the words lists the "english" spelling category should
+be used as well as one of "american", "british", "british_z" (british
+with ize spelling), or "canadian". Great care has been taken so that
+that only one spelling for any particular word is included in the main
+list. When two variants were considered equal I randomly picked one
+for inclusion in the main word list. Unfortunately this means that my
+choice in how to spell a word may not match your choice. If this is
+the case you can try including the "variant_0" spelling category which
+includes most variants which are considered almost equal. The
+"variant_1" spelling category include variants which are also
+generally considered acceptable, and "variant_2" contains variants
+which are seldom used.
+
+The "abbreviation" category includes abbreviations and acronyms which
+are not also normal words. The "contractions" category should be self
+explanatory. The "upper" category includes upper case words and proper
+names which are common enough to appear in a typical dictionary. The
+"proper-names" category included all the additional uppercase words.
+Final the "words" category contains all the normal English words.
+
+To give you an idea of what the words in the various sizes look like
+here is a sample of 25 random words found only in that size:
+
+10: began both buffer cause collection content documenting easiest
+ equally examines expecting first firstly hence inclining
+ irrelevant justified little logs necessarily ought sadly six
+ thing visible
+
+20: chunks commodity contempt contexts cruelty crush dictatorship
+ disgusted dose elementary evolved frog god hordes notion overdraft
+ overlong overlook phoning poster recordings sand skull substituted
+ throughput
+
+35: aliasing blackouts blowout bluntness corroborated derrick
+ dredging elopements entrancing excising fellowship flagpole
+ germination glimpse gondola guidebook madams minimalism minnows
+ partisans petitions shelling swarmed throng welding
+
+40: altercation blender castigation chump coffeehouse determiners
+ doggoning exhibitor finders flophouse gazebo lumbering masochism
+ mopeds poetically pubic refinance reggae scragglier softhearted
+ stubbornness teargassed township underclassman whoosh
+
+50: accumulative adulterant allegorically amorousness astrophysics
+ camphor coif dickey elusiveness enviousness fakers fetishistic
+ flippantly headsets liefs midyears myna pacification persiflage
+ phosphoric pinhole sappy seres unrealistically unworldly
+
+55: becquerel brickie centralist cine conveyancing courgette
+ disarmingly garçon gobstopper infilling insipidity
+ internationalist kabuki lyrebirds obscurantism rejigged
+ revisionist satsuma slapper sozzled sublieutenants teletext vino
+ wellness wracking
+
+60: absorber acceptableness adventurousness antifascists arrhythmia
+ audiology cartage cruses fontanel forelimbs granter hairlike
+ installers jugglery lappets libbers mandrels micrometeorite
+ mineshaft reconsecrates saccharides smellable spavined sud timbrel
+
+70: atomisms benedict carven coxa cyanite detraining diazonium
+ dogberry dogmatics entresol fatherlessnesses firestone imprecator
+ laterality legitimisms maxwell microfloppies nonteaching pelerine
+ pentane pestiferousness piscator profascist tusche twirp
+
+80: cotransfers embrangled forkednesses giftwrapped globosity hatpegs
+ hepsters hermitess interspecific inurbanities lamiae
+ literaehumaniores literatures masulas misbegun plook prerupt
+ quaalude rosanilin sabbatism scowder subreptive thumbstalls
+ understrata yakows
+
+95: anatropal anientise bakshi brouzes corsie daimiote dhaw dislikened
+ ectoretina fortuitisms guardeen hyperlithuria nonanachronistic
+ overacceleration pamphletic parma phytolith starvedly
+ trophoplasmic ulorrhagia undared undertide unplunderously
+ unworkmanly vasoepididymostomy
+
+And here is a rough count on the number of words in the "english"
+spelling category for each size:
+
+ Size Words Proper Names Running Total
+
+ 10 5,000 5,000
+ 20 8,700 14,000
+ 35 34,500 200 48,000
+ 40 6,000 500 55,000
+ 50 23,200 17,200 95,000
+ 55 7,500 103,000
+ 60 16,000 12,800 132,000
+ 70 45,100 34,300 211,000
+ 80 137,000 30,400 379,000
+ 95 198,000 51,800 628,000
+
+(The "Words" column does not include the proper name count.)
+
+Size 35 is the recommended small size, 50 the medium and 70 the large.
+Sizes 70 and below contain words found in most dictionaries while the
+80 size contains all the strange and unusual words people like to use
+in word games such as Scrabble (TM). While a lot of the the words in
+the 80 size are not used very often, they are all generally considered
+valid words in the English language. The 95 contains just about every
+English word in existence and then some. Many of the words at the 95
+level will probally not be considered valid english words by most
+people. I don't recommend anyone use levels above 70 for spell
+checking as they contain rarely used words which can hide misspellings
+of similar more commonly used words. For example the word "ort" can
+hide a common typo of "or". No one should need to use a size larger
+than 80, the 95 size is labeled insane for a reason.
+
+Accents are present on certain words such as café in iso8859-1 format.
+
+CHANGES:
+
+From Revision 5 to 6 (August 10, 2004)
+
+ Updated to version 4.0 of the 12dicts package.
+
+ Included the 3esl, 2of4brif, and 5desk list from the new 12dicts
+ package. The 3esl was included in the 40 size, the 2of4brif in the
+ 55 size and the 5desk in the 70 size.
+
+ Removed the Ispell word list as it was a source of too many errors.
+ This eliminated the 65 size.
+
+ Removed clause 4 from the Ispell copyright with permission of Geoff
+ Kuenning.
+
+ Updated to version 4.1 of VarCon.
+
+ Added the "british_z" spelling category which it British using the
+ "ize" spelling.
+
+From Revision 4a to 5 (January 3, 2002)
+
+ Added variants that were not really spelling variants (such as
+ forwards) back into the main list.
+
+ Fixed a bug which caused variants of words to incorrectly appear in
+ the non-variant lists.
+
+ Moved rarly used inflections of a word into higher number lists.
+
+ Added other inflections of a words based on the following criteria
+ If the word is in the base form: only include that word.
+ If the word is in a plural form: include the base word and the plural
+ If the word is a verb form (other than plural): include all verb forms
+ If the word is an ad* form: include all ad* forms
+ If the word is in a possessive form: also include the non-possessive
+
+ Updated to the latest version of many of the source dictionaries.
+
+ Removed the DEC Word List due to the questionable licence and
+ because removing it will not seriously decrese the quality of SCOWL
+ (there are a few less proper names).
+
+From Revision 4 to 4a (April 4, 2001)
+
+ Reran the scripts on a never version of AGID (3a) which fixes a bug
+ which caused some common words to be improperly marked as variants.
+
+From Revision 3 to 4 (January 28, 2001)
+
+ Split the variant "spelling category" up into 3 different levels.
+
+ Added words in the Ispell word list at the 65 level.
+
+ Other changes due to using more recent versions of various sources
+ included a more accurete version of AGID thanks to the word of
+ Alan Beale
+
+From Revision 2 to 3 (August 18, 2000)
+
+ Renamed special-unix-terms to special-hacker and added a large
+ number of communly used words within the hacker (not cracker)
+ community.
+
+ Added a couple more signature words including "newbie".
+
+ Minor changes due to changes in the inflection database.
+
+From Revision 1 to 2 (August 5, 2000)
+
+ Moved the male and female name lists from the mwords package and the
+ DEC name lists form the 50 level to the 60 level and moved Alan's
+ name list from the 60 level to the 50 level. Also added the top
+ 1000 male, female, and last names from the 1990 Census report to the
+ 50 level. This reduced the number of names in the 50 level from
+ 17,000 to 7,000.
+
+ Added a large number of Uppercase words to the 50 level.
+
+ Properly accented the possessive form of some words.
+
+ Minor other changes due to changes in my raw data files which have
+ not been released yet. Email if you are interested in these files.
+
+COPYRIGHT, SOURCES, and CREDITS:
+
+The collective work is Copyright 2000-2004 by Kevin Atkinson as well
+as any of the copyrights mentioned below:
+
+ Copyright 2000-2004 by Kevin Atkinson
+
+ Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell these word
+ lists, the associated scripts, the output created from the scripts,
+ and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,
+ provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and
+ that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
+ supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations
+ about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided
+ "as is" without express or implied warranty.
+
+Alan Beale <biljir@pobox.com> also deserves special credit as he has,
+in addition to providing the 12Dicts package and being a major
+contributor to the ENABLE word list, given me an incredible amount of
+feedback and created a number of special lists (those found in the
+Supplement) in order to help improve the overall quality of SCOWL.
+
+The 10 level includes the 1000 most common English words (according to
+the Moby (TM) Words II [MWords] package), a subset of the 1000 most
+common words on the Internet (again, according to Moby Words II), and
+frequently class 16 from Brian Kelk's "UK English Wordlist
+with Frequency Classification".
+
+The MWords package was explicitly placed in the public domain:
+
+ The Moby lexicon project is complete and has
+ been place into the public domain. Use, sell,
+ rework, excerpt and use in any way on any platform.
+
+ Placing this material on internal or public servers is
+ also encouraged. The compiler is not aware of any
+ export restrictions so freely distribute world-wide.
+
+ You can verify the public domain status by contacting
+
+ Grady Ward
+ 3449 Martha Ct.
+ Arcata, CA 95521-4884
+
+ grady@netcom.com
+ grady@northcoast.com
+
+The "UK English Wordlist With Frequency Classification" is also in the
+Public Domain:
+
+ Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 20:27:21 +0100
+ From: Brian Kelk <Brian.Kelk@cl.cam.ac.uk>
+
+ > I was wondering what the copyright status of your "UK English
+ > Wordlist With Frequency Classification" word list as it seems to
+ > be lacking any copyright notice.
+
+ There were many many sources in total, but any text marked
+ "copyright" was avoided. Locally-written documentation was one
+ source. An earlier version of the list resided in a filespace called
+ PUBLIC on the University mainframe, because it was considered public
+ domain.
+
+ Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:31:34 +0100
+
+ > So are you saying your word list is also in the public domain?
+
+ That is the intention.
+
+The 20 level includes frequency classes 7-15 from Brian's word list.
+
+The 35 level includes frequency classes 2-6 and words appearing in at
+least 11 of 12 dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts package. All
+words from the 12Dicts package have had likely inflections added via
+my inflection database.
+
+The 12Dicts package and Supplement is in the Public Domain.
+
+The WordNet database, which was used in the creation of the
+Inflections database, is under the following copyright:
+
+ This software and database is being provided to you, the LICENSEE,
+ by Princeton University under the following license. By obtaining,
+ using and/or copying this software and database, you agree that you
+ have read, understood, and will comply with these terms and
+ conditions.:
+
+ Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and
+ database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or
+ royalty is hereby granted, provided that you agree to comply with
+ the following copyright notice and statements, including the
+ disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software,
+ database and documentation, including modifications that you make
+ for internal use or for distribution.
+
+ WordNet 1.6 Copyright 1997 by Princeton University. All rights
+ reserved.
+
+ THIS SOFTWARE AND DATABASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND PRINCETON
+ UNIVERSITY MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR
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+
+ The name of Princeton University or Princeton may not be used in
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+ any associated documentation shall at all times remain with
+ Princeton University and LICENSEE agrees to preserve same.
+
+The 40 level includes words from Alan's 3esl list found in version 4.0
+of his 12dicts package. Like his other stuff the 3esl list is also in the
+public domain.
+
+The 50 level includes Brian's frequency class 1, words words appearing
+in at least 5 of 12 of the dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts
+package, and uppercase words in at least 4 of the previous 12
+dictionaries. A decent number of proper names is also included: The
+top 1000 male, female, and Last names from the 1990 Census report; a
+list of names sent to me by Alan Beale; and a few names that I added
+myself. Finally a small list of abbreviations not commonly found in
+other word lists is included.
+
+The name files form the Census report is a government document which I
+don't think can be copyrighted.
+
+The file special-jargon.50 uses common.lst and word.lst from the
+"Unofficial Jargon File Word Lists" which is derived from "The Jargon
+File". All of which is in the Public Domain. This file also contain
+a few extra UNIX terms which are found in the file "unix-terms" in the
+special/ directory.
+
+The 55 level includes words from Alan's 2of4brif list found in version
+4.0 of his 12dicts package. Like his other stuff the 2of4brif is also
+in the public domain.
+
+The 60 level includes Brian's frequency class 0 and all words
+appearing in at least 2 of the 12 dictionaries as indicated by the
+12Dicts package. A large number of names are also included: The 4,946
+female names and the 3,897 male names from the MWords package.
+
+The 70 level includes the 74,550 common dictionary words and the
+21,986 names list from the MWords package The common dictionary words,
+like those from the 12Dicts package, have had all likely inflections
+added. The 70 level also included the 5desk list from version 4.0 of
+the 12Dics package which is the public domain
+
+The 80 level includes the ENABLE word list, all the lists in the
+ENABLE supplement package (except for ABLE), the "UK Advanced Cryptics
+Dictionary" (UKACD), the list of signature words in from YAWL package,
+and the 10,196 places list from the MWords package.
+
+The ENABLE package, mainted by M\Cooper <thegrendel@theriver.com>,
+is in the Public Domain:
+
+ The ENABLE master word list, WORD.LST, is herewith formally released
+ into the Public Domain. Anyone is free to use it or distribute it in
+ any manner they see fit. No fee or registration is required for its
+ use nor are "contributions" solicited (if you feel you absolutely
+ must contribute something for your own peace of mind, the authors of
+ the ENABLE list ask that you make a donation on their behalf to your
+ favorite charity). This word list is our gift to the Scrabble
+ community, as an alternate to "official" word lists. Game designers
+ may feel free to incorporate the WORD.LST into their games. Please
+ mention the source and credit us as originators of the list. Note
+ that if you, as a game designer, use the WORD.LST in your product,
+ you may still copyright and protect your product, but you may *not*
+ legally copyright or in any way restrict redistribution of the
+ WORD.LST portion of your product. This *may* under law restrict your
+ rights to restrict your users' rights, but that is only fair.
+
+UKACD, by J Ross Beresford <ross@bryson.demon.co.uk>, is under the
+following copyright:
+
+ Copyright (c) J Ross Beresford 1993-1999. All Rights Reserved.
+
+ The following restriction is placed on the use of this publication:
+ if The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary is used in a software package
+ or redistributed in any form, the copyright notice must be
+ prominently displayed and the text of this document must be included
+ verbatim.
+
+ There are no other restrictions: I would like to see the list
+ distributed as widely as possible.
+
+The 95 level includes the 354,984 single words and 256,772 compound
+words from the MWords package, ABLE.LST from the ENABLE Supplement,
+and some additional words found in my part-of-speech database that
+were not found anywhere else.
+
+Accent information was taken from UKACD.
+
+My VARCON package was used to create the American, British, and
+Canadian word list.
+
+Since the original word lists used used in the VARCON package came
+from the Ispell distribution they are under the Ispell copyright:
+
+ Copyright 1993, Geoff Kuenning, Granada Hills, CA
+ All rights reserved.
+
+ Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+ modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+ are met:
+
+ 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+ notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+ 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+ notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+ documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+ 3. All modifications to the source code must be clearly marked as
+ such. Binary redistributions based on modified source code
+ must be clearly marked as modified versions in the documentation
+ and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+ (clause 4 removed with permission from Geoff Kuenning)
+ 5. The name of Geoff Kuenning may not be used to endorse or promote
+ products derived from this software without specific prior
+ written permission.
+
+ THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY GEOFF KUENNING AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS
+ IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
+ LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS
+ FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL GEOFF
+ KUENNING OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
+ INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING,
+ BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES;
+ LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER
+ CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
+ LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN
+ ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
+ POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+
+The variant word lists were created from a list of variants found in
+the 12dicts supplement package as well as a list of variants I created
+myself.
+
+The Readmes for the various packages used can be found in the
+appropriate directory under the r/ directory.
+
+FUTURE PLANS:
+
+There is a very nice frequency analyse of the BNC corpus done by
+Adam Kilgarriff. Unlike Brain's word lists the BNC lists include part
+of speech information. I plan on somehow using these lists as Adam
+Kilgarriff has given me the OK to use it in SCOWL. These lists will
+greatly reduce the problem of inflected forms of a word appearing at
+different levels due to the part-of-speech information.
+
+I also plan on perhaps putting the data in a database and use SQL
+queries to create the wordlists instead of tons of "sort"s, "comm"s,
+and Perl scripts.
+
+RECREATING THE WORD LISTS:
+
+In order to recreate the word lists you need a modern version of Perl,
+bash, the traditional set of shell utilities, a system that supports
+symbolic links, and quite possibly GNU Make. Once you have downloaded
+all the necessary raw data in the r/ directory you should be able to
+type "rm final/* && make all" and the word lists in the final/
+directory should be recreated. If you have any problems fell free to
+contact me; however, unless you are interested in improving the
+scripts used, I will likely ignore you as there should be little need
+for anyone not interested in improving the word list to do so.
+
+The src/ directory contains the numerous scripts used in the creation
+of the final product.
+
+The r/ directory contains the raw data used to
+create the final product. In order for the scripts to work various
+word lists and databases need to be created and put into this
+directory. See the README file in the r/ directory for more
+information.
+
+The l/ directory contains symbolic links used by the actual scripts.
+
+Finally, the working/ directory is where all the intermittent files go
+that are not specific to one source.
+
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