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-     UK English Wordlist With Frequency Classification
-
-This wordlist is primarily intended to be useful for
-checking spelling. Editorial policy is conservative.
-
-Principal omissions:
-
-   -   words requiring a capital letter
-   -   abbreviations
-   -   slang
-
-Colloquialisms and archaisms are generally excluded. A rare
-word similar to a common word may be excluded. Both -ise and
--ize spellings are included.
-
-The character set is: lowercase letters, hyphen, apostrophe.
-Words which can be spelt with accents occur here in their
-plain form.
-
-If this wordlist is to be used with ispell the following
-lines may be appropriate for the affix file:
-
-   boundarychars [---]
-   boundarychars '
-   wordchars [a-z] [A-Z]
-
-The commonest words are labelled 16 and the least common 0.
-
-Coverage of common words should be good, but note the
-categories excluded.
-
-                        Brian Kelk bck22@bckelk.uklinux.net
-                        April 2002
-
-
-Here are bits of a brief conversation I had with the author:
-
-From: Brian Kelk <Brian.Kelk@cl.cam.ac.uk>
-Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 20:27:21 +0100
-
-> 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.  Also, how did you arrive at the "Frequency
-> Classification".
-
-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.
-
-Briefly about frequency: rather than counting occurrences of
-a word this classification is more along the lines of counting
-the number of texts in which the word occurs. That way you
-get some noise immunity, which you very much need. It's based
-on maybe 5-10 million words of text on the Cambridge mainframe
-in the 1980s. I had in mind that it might be useful for ranking
-possible corrections ...
-
-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.
-
-
-
-