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+Variant Conversion Info (VARCON)
+
+Revision 4.1
+
+August 10, 2004
+
+Copyright 2000-2004 by Kevin Atkinson (kevina@gnu.org)
+
+This package contains tables to convert between American, British, and
+Canadian spellings and vocabulary as well as well as a table listing the
+equivalent forms of other variants.
+
+The latest version can be found at http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/.
+
+The abbc.tab contains mappings between American, British with "ise"
+spelling, British with "ize" spelling, and Canadian spellings. The
+fields are separated by a tab character and have the Unix EOL
+character. The first four columns are the spellings respectively.
+The last column is used to mark words where the American or British
+spelling is also used in the British or American spelling but only
+when the word has a certain meaning. American words that are also
+used in British / Canadian spellings are marked with a "A" while
+British words that are also used in American / Canadian spellings are
+marked with a "B".
+
+The file voc.tab is like abbc.tab except that it converts between
+vocabulary instead of spelling. If more than one word if often uses to
+describe the same thing the words are separated with commas. The last
+column contains additional notes on when the word is used. Unlike
+abbc.tab it is generally not suitable for automatic conversion.
+
+The file variant-also.tab contains additional mappings between various
+spellings of a word which are not necessarily region dependent. Only
+mappings that are not listed in abbc.tab are included in this mapping.
+No attempt is made to distinguish the primary form of a word. The
+file variant-infl.tab is like variant-also.tab except that it is
+created automatically from the AGID inflection database. The file
+variant-wroot.tab is like variant-infl.tab except that it also
+included the root form of the word.
+
+Both the translation array and variant table includes a lot of strange
+affixations of words which I have no intention of removing as some
+people might find them useful.
+
+The "make-variant" Perl script will combine abbc.tab, variant-also.tab,
+and variant-infl.tab into one huge mapping and will output the result
+to "variant.tab". If the "no-infl" option is given than
+variant-infl.tab will not be included.
+
+The "split" script will create 5 words lists from abbc.tab:
+american.lst, british.lst, british_z.lst, canadian.lst, and
+common.lst. The common.lst file contains words that were marked in
+the last column as explained above and the other four contain all the
+possible words that might be used by that particular country, included
+some of the words marked in the last column.
+
+The "translate" Perl script will translate a text file from one
+spelling to another. Its usage is:
+
+translate <options> [<translation array>] <from> <to>
+<options> is any of
+ -?,-h,--help this screen
+ -m,--mark mark words where the translation is questionable
+ -i,--include include words where the translation is questionable
+<translation array> is the file name of the translation array,
+ defaults to "abbc.tab".
+<from> and <to> are one of: american, british, british_z, or canadian.
+british-ise and british-ize can also be used.
+
+Text is read in from standard input and is outputted to standard out.
+Words are marked with a '?' before and after the questionable word
+when the option is enabled.
+
+If you discover any errors in these mappings, besides the strange
+affixations, or have suggestions for additions be sure and let me know
+at kevina@gnu.org.
+
+SOURCE:
+
+These mappings were compiled from numerous sources.
+
+The abc.tab was originally created from the American and British word
+lists found in the Ispell distribution and the Canadian word list
+created by Garst R. Reese <reese@isn.net>:
+
+ What I have discovered is that Canadian is a modification of British.
+ Canadians use ize ization, izing izable like Americans, and gram instead
+ of gramme. The one exception I found was practise. It does not go to
+ practize. Otherwise they use British spelling. So, what I am currently
+ checking books with is a an edited version of British, where I have
+ changed all occurrences of ise to ize, isab to izab, isation to ization,
+ ising to izing, and gramme to gram except I allow programme, which is
+ sometimes proper unless you are talking about a computer program. I did
+ bunches of greps to be sure these substitutions would work as expected.
+
+Many other words have been added to abc.tab which were not in the
+original Ispell word lists.
+
+Many different web sources were consuled when crating the tables. They
+include:
+
+ The American-British British-American Dictionary
+ http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/dictionary.html
+ American and British Spelling Differences
+ http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/spellcat.html
+ Dave (VE7CNV)'s Truly Canadian Dictionary of Canadian Spelling
+ http://www.luther.bc.ca/~dave7cnv/cdnspelling/cdnspelling.html
+ Canadian Spelling Convention
+ http://imej.wfu.edu/articles/1999/1/02/demo/tutorial/canas.html
+ Cornerstone's Canadian English Page
+ http://www.web.net/cornerstone/cdneng.htm
+ Inter-Play Translation: British/Canadian/American Spelling
+ http://www.inter-play.com/translation/spel-ukus.htm
+ Inter-Play Translation: British/Canadian/American Vocabulary
+ http://www.inter-play.com/translation/voc-ukus.htm
+
+As well as several online dicionaries:
+
+ Marriam-Webster: http://www.m-w.com/
+ American Heritage: http://www.bartleby.com/61/
+ Cambridge (ESL): http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
+
+CHANGELOG:
+
+From Revision 4 to Revision 4.1 (August 10, 2004)
+
+ - Fixed various errors ib abbc.tab
+
+ - Removed clause 4 from the Ispell copyright with permission of Geoff
+ Kuenning.
+
+From Revision 3 to Revision 4 (August 7, 2004)
+
+ - Added a column to "abc.tab" for the British "ize" spelling and
+ renamed the file to abbc.tab.
+ - Added verb forms of prize/prise to abbc.tab, removed from
+ variant-also.tab
+
+From Revision 2 to Revision 3 (January 2, 2003)
+
+ - Added an option for not including variant-infl.tab for the
+ make-variant perl script
+ - Added the file variant-wroot.tab
+ - Added a few entries given to me by Francis Bond and Edward Betts
+
+From Revision 1 to Revision 2 (January 27, 2001)
+
+ - Removed all "B" markers because I could not find any evidence for
+ them
+ - Corrected a few Canadian entries, especially those with the "B"
+ markers
+ - Added some more entries by trying fixed changes (such as ize to
+ ise) to words in SCOWL and hand-checking over the ones with semi-common
+ words in them.
+ - Added variant-infl.tab
+
+COPYRIGHT:
+
+Copyright 2000-2004 by Kevin Atkinson
+
+Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this array, the
+associated software, 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.
+
+Since the original words lists come from the Ispell distribution:
+
+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
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+OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
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+SUCH DAMAGE.
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