en_CA (Canadian)
en_GB-ise (British with "ise" spelling)
en_GB-ize (British with "ize" spelling)
+ en_AU (Australian)
en_US-large
en_CA-large
en_GB-large (with both "ise" and "ize" spelling)
+ en_AU-large
The normal (non-large) dictionaries correspond to SCOWL size 60 and,
to encourage consistent spelling, generally only include one spelling
variant for a word. The large dictionaries correspond to SCOWL size
70 and may include multiple spelling for a word when both variants are
-considered almost equal. Also, the general quality of the larger
-dictionaries may also be less as they are not as carefully checked for
-errors as the normal dictionaries.
+considered almost equal. The larger dictionaries however (1) have not
+been as carefully checked for errors as the normal dictionaries and
+thus may contain misspelled or invalid words; and (2) contain
+uncommon, yet valid, words that might cause problems as they are
+likely to be misspellings of more common words (for example, "ort" and
+"calender").
To get an idea of the difference in size, here are 25 random words
only found in the large dictionary for American English:
incretion jalapeƱo's kelpie kishkes neuroglias pietisms pullulation
stemwinder stenoses syce thalassic zees
-The en_US and en_CA are the official dictionaries for Hunspell. The
-en_GB and large dictionaries are made available on an experimental
+The en_US, en_CA and en_AU are the official dictionaries for Hunspell.
+The en_GB and large dictionaries are made available on an experimental
basis. If you find them useful please send me a quick email at
kevina@gnu.org.
If none of these dictionaries suite you (for example, maybe you want
-the larger dictionary but only use spelling of a word) additional
+the normal dictionary that also includes common variants) additional
dictionaries can be generated at http://app.aspell.net/create or by
modifying speller/make-hunspell-dict in SCOWL. Please do let me know
if you end up publishing a customized dictionary.
have specific issues with any of these dictionaries please file a bug
report at https://github.com/kevina/wordlist/issues.
-IMPORTANT CHANGES FROM 2015.02.15:
+IMPORTANT CHANGES INTRODUCED In 2016.11.20:
+
+New Australian dictionaries thanks to the work of Benjamin Titze
+(btitze@protonmail.ch).
+
+IMPORTANT CHANGES INTRODUCED IN 2016.04.24:
The dictionaries are now in UTF-8 format instead of ISO-8859-1. This
was required to handle smart quotes correctly.
+IMPORTANT CHANGES INTRODUCED IN 2016.01.19:
+
+"SET UTF8" was changes to "SET UTF-8" in the affix file as some
+versions of Hunspell do not recognize "UTF8".
+
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
The NOSUGGEST flag was added to certain taboo words. While I made an