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+Automatically Generated Inflection Database (AGID)
+
+Version 2014.08.11
+
+Copyright 2000-2014 by Kevin Atkinson <kevina@gnu.org>
+
+The file "infl.txt" is an automatically created database of the
+inflected forms of words from a rather large word list.
+
+The latest version can be found at http://wordlist.aspell.net
+
+Entries are in the following form.
+
+<word><sp><pos>[?]:<sp><inflected forms>
+<word> := [[A-Za-z']]+
+<sp> := <literal space>
+<pos> := [[VNA]]
+<inflected forms> := <inflected form><sp>|<sp>...<sp>|<sp><inflected form>
+<inflected form> := <individual entry>,<sp>...,<sp><individual entry>
+<individual entry> := <word><word tags>[<sp><variant level>][<sp>{<explanation>}]
+<word tags> := [~][<][!][?]
+<explanation> := [<explanation text>][:<distinguishing number>]
+<explanation text> := [[A-Za-z'_/]]+
+
+where stuff between [ ] is optional, stuff between [[ ]] indicate a
+range of possible characters for that entry. If a [[ ]] is followed by
+a + it means the entry can consist of one or more characters in
+that range. { } are literal.
+
+A typical entry will look like
+
+WORD V: WORDed, WORed 2, WORD {EXPL} | WORDing, WORing 2 | WORDs
+
+<pos> is V for verb, N for noun, or A or adjective or adverb.
+If <pos> is followed by a ? that means that the part-of-speech was not
+in the part-of-speech database however the inflected forms of the word
+where found in the word list.
+
+The inflected forms are in the following order for verbs (except for
+a few special verbs):
+ <past tense> [<past participle>] <-ing form> <-s form>
+and for adjective or adverbs:
+ <-er form> <-est form>
+Each form is seperated by a ' | '.
+
+Special cases:
+be:
+ <past 1st & 3d singular> <2d singular, plural, past subjunctive>
+ <past participle> <present participle> <present 1st singular>
+ <2d singular> <3d singular> <plural present>
+wit:
+ <past & past participle> <present participle> <present participle>
+ <present 1st & 3d singular> <2d singular> <plural present>
+
+An absence of a variant level implies a variant level of 0. Two words
+with the same whole number variant level are considered almost equal
+with a slight preference given to the entry with a lower number. A
+whole number variant level of 1 indicates a less preferred form of the
+word. A whole number variant level of 2 indicates any number of
+things. It could mean that it is from an archaic use of the word, or
+a variant that is hardly ever used or for an extremely obscure meaning
+of the word, or finally it could mean that the word looked like it
+could possibly be a inflected form of the base word but I could not
+find any evidence for them. If two words have the same variant level
+and explanation it means that both inflections were found and the
+script was not sure which one to use.
+
+Sometimes the inflected form to use depends on the meaning of the
+word. If this is the case the two entries will have different
+explanations. If the distinction can be made in a few words it is
+given with underscores (_) replacing spaces. Otherwise the two
+entries will have different distinguishing numbers.
+
+A < after a word means that there is a good change that this is an
+inflected form of the word, a ~ after a word means that there is a
+slight chance. A ! after a word indicates that the word is likely an
+inflections of a similar word (generally one ending in e) and not the
+current word. A ? after a word means that the word was not in the
+word list but if it was it would be considered an inflected form of
+the base word.
+
+This verson is now almost as accurate as Alan Beale's 2of12id file
+distributed with the "Unofficial Alternate 12 Dicts Package" for the
+base words which have an entry in 2of12id.txt with a few notable
+exceptions. The most obvious one is the "person" entry. Alan Beale
+considers, based on what his sources have told him, that "persons" is
+the proper plural for "person" and "people" is considered a variant.
+I however disagree and decided to consider "people" the primary form
+and "persons" as the sligtly less perfered variant based on my own
+experence and http://www.quinion.com/words/usagenotes/un-person.htm
+which says:
+
+ The normal plural of person was persons ... However, there is
+ evidence from Chaucer onwards that some writers chose to use people
+ as a plural for person, not only in the generalised sense of 'an
+ uncountable or indistinct mass of individuals' but also in specific
+ countable cases. ... Though persons survives, it does so largely in
+ formal or legal contexts ...From the evidence, it seems that the
+ trend towards using people instead of persons is accelerating and
+ that it may not be so long before persons vanishes from the language
+ except in certain set phrases.
+
+I considered making "persons" a variant (level 1), but I decided
+against it as "persons" is for the most part perfectly acceptable and
+probably considered the proper plural to use by some.
+
+I also considered the -people ending the primary form for all words
+ending in -person such as salesperson and the -persons entry the
+slightly less preferred variant in spite of what 2of12id.txt said.
+
+In some cases a variant of level 2 is listed in AGID where it is not
+listed at all in 2of12id. In general this means that the script came
+up with the possibility and, in spite it not being listed in 2of12id,
+it seams logical to me.
+
+The final case occurs when a word has two or more -s inflections used
+as both noun and verb forms, and these forms would have different
+variant levels in 2of12id. For example:
+ ditto N: dittos, dittoes 1
+ ditto V: dittoed | dittoing | dittos, dittoes 0.1
+For purely technical reasons and because I do not feel that it matters
+too much I have made the variant levels for the -s forms the same. For
+example the ditto entries became:
+ ditto N: dittos, dittoes 0.1
+ ditto V: dittoed | dittoing | dittos, dittoes 0.1
+The choice of the variant levels I used is somewhat arbitrary but I in
+general went with the lower level.
+
+Fell free to send me corrections to correct any of these questionable
+words. I am mostly interested in the preferred form of the word when
+the script was not able to decide or words marked with < or ~ that are
+valid inflected forms of the words.
+
+Also included in this version are the files "variant_0.lst",
+"variant_1.lst", "variant_2.lst", and "variant.tab". The files
+"variant_#.lst" include all of the inflected forms at the given level
+found in infl.txt which are not generally considered to be some other
+common word. The file variant.tab contains a cross reference of all
+alternate forms of inflected form of words. The file variant-wroot.tab
+is like variant.tab except that it also included the root form of the
+word.
+
+Words are in mixed case but all accents have been striped thus words
+like café are instead cafe.
+
+The file "variant" contains a list of alternate inflections.
+
+The file "irregular" contains extra information where a noun or verb
+has irregular inflected forms.
+
+The file "dontuse" contains a list of words not to consider an
+inflected form of a word if more than one inflected form of a word is
+found.
+
+The files "prefixes" and "suffixes" contains a list of common prefixes
+and suffixes respectfully. These files are used by the script to
+produce inflected forms for words that end in a word in the
+"irregular" file. If the beginning appears in the word list or the
+prefixes file and the ending appears in the irregular file I also
+consider <prefix>+<irregular inflections>. If the prefix is 3 letters
+or more OR appears in the prefixes file and the suffix is 4 letters or
+more OR appears in the suffixes file I consider it the most likely
+choice, otherwise I consider it as a possible candidate but not the
+most likely choice.
+
+The file "make-infl" is the actual Perl script used to create the
+data base.
+
+The file "find-var" is the Perl script used to create the variant
+lists and cross reference file.
+
+The file "make-all" was used to create the word list used by the script.
+
+CHANGES:
+
+From Rev 4 to Ver 2014.08.11
+
+ Misc. changes to sync up with what is being used by SCOWL.
+
+From Revision 3a to 4 (January 2, 2003)
+
+ Added variant-wroot.tab
+ Update find-var script to also produce variant-wroot.tab.
+
+From Revision 3 to 3a (April 04, 2001)
+
+ Fixed a bug in the find-var script which caused some common
+ words which are variants for one usage of a word but not
+ variants for any other common usage to improperly appear in
+ the variant list.
+
+From Revision 2 to 3 (January 28, 2001)
+
+ Changed the format of infl.txt to something which is slightly harder
+ to read but a lot less ambiguous and easier to parse.
+
+ Update various files, including the actual script, so that the
+ output that is almost as accurate of Alan Beale 2of12id.txt
+
+ Eliminated Moby Words and ABLE from the word list used by the script
+ to give more accurate results.
+
+From Revision 1 to 2 (August 18, 2000)
+
+ Classified variants as either almost equal, also used, or
+ secondary.
+
+ The / is now used to indicate equal variants. "/?" is now used to
+ mean what "/" used to be.
+
+ Lots of additional rules added which greatly improved the results.
+
+COPYRIGHT AND SOURCE:
+
+The final product is under the following copyright, as well as any
+copyrights mentioned below.
+
+ Copyright 2000-2014 by Kevin Atkinson
+
+ Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this database,
+ the associated scripts, the output created form 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.
+
+The part-of-speech database is taken from Alan Beale 2of12id
+and the WordNet database which is under the following copyright:
+
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+
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+
+Alan Beale 2of12id.txt is indirectly derived from the Moby part-of-speech
+database and the WordNet database. The Moby part-of-speech is 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
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+
+ grady@netcom.com
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+
+
+The word list used is a combination of several word list:
+
+1) The ENABLE2K word lists which 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.
+
+2) All of the word lists except ABLE.LST in the ENABLE2K Supplemnt
+ which consists of:
+
+ 2DICTS.LST ALSO.LST LETTERS.LST OSPDADD.LST UCACR.LST
+ LCACR.LST NOPOS.LST PLURALS.LST UPPER.LST
+
+ All of these word lists are also in the public domain.
+
+3) The list of signature words from the YAWL package which is in the
+ public domain.
+
+4) The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary which in 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.
+
+5) Some extra words found in the Part-Of-Speech database that was not
+ found in any of the above word lists.
+
+6) Words found in the Jargon File Word List package, available at
+ http://aspell.sourceforge.net/wl/, which is in the Public Domain.
+
+7) Words in 2of12id.txt not in any of the word lists above. 2of12id is
+ indirectly derived from all the above sources and most of the word
+ lists from the Moby Words package:
+
+ 10196pla.ces 113809of.fic 21986na.mes 256772co.mpo 354984si.ngl
+ 3897male.nam 4160offi.cia 4946fema.len 6213acro.nym 74550com.mon
+
+ The Moby Word package, like the Part-Of-Speech database is in the
+ public domain.
+
+8) And finally some extra words that I added myself. These words can be
+ found in the file "extra-words"
+
+The "dontuse", "irregular", and "variant" file was created by me
+(Kevin Atkinson) from numerous sources.
+
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