X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=deb_pkgs%2Fscowl.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=7.1%2Fr%2Fenable-sup%2Fable.doc;fp=7.1%2Fr%2Fenable-sup%2Fable.doc;h=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hp=b43f7b7bda3ac1f55b943cf2a95022a3f27e71c5;hb=b13ea8a082364672c6de2b010e558211ff52ec9a;hpb=01534a94130c1f5a3a230cf4fe18365a235ba271 diff --git a/7.1/r/enable-sup/able.doc b/7.1/r/enable-sup/able.doc deleted file mode 100644 index b43f7b7..0000000 --- a/7.1/r/enable-sup/able.doc +++ /dev/null @@ -1,55 +0,0 @@ -The ABLE (Alternate British LExicon) list purports to represent the -contents of the fourth edition of OSW, plus longer words from the 1997 -Chambers Dictionary. The notorious OSW is itself based on the Chambers -Dictionary, which is the official reference for Scrabble players in -Britain. We have removed words duplicated in the ENABLE list to reduce -the size of the archive. - -Due to copyright considerations, the maintainers of ENABLE could -not reproduce the "official" OSW. Under highly obscure circumstances, -however, we came into possession of an equivalent list. It seems that a -mysterious individual, identifying himself only as "The Third Man" (with -more than a slight resemblance to the young Orson Wells), handed over a -sealed diplomatic pouch on a dark and stormy night to a cashiered ex-MI6 -operative. There were strains of zither music in the background, and the -whole sordid affair had a tinge of disreputable sleaziness. Somehow, a -bundle of papers from the pouch found its way into a dumpster behind the -Pentagon, from whence it was retrieved by an inebriated denizen of the -nearby Men's Shelter. There the tangled trail of this latter day version -of the Pentagon Papers vanished until... Years later, one of the ENABLE -maintainers purchased a battered, but otherwise undistinguished statuette -of a black falcon from the venerable auction firm of Spade & Archer. The -base of the statuette, next to the "Made in Malta" inscription, seemed -to contain a hollow space. Within it was a sheaf of yellowing mildewy -papers. It was a handwritten word list, the last surviving facsimile of -the ABLE list! ...And the rest, as they say, is history. - -For this revision of the ENABLE2K Supplement, the ABLE list has been -improved in the following ways. It has incorporated changes from the -fourth edition of OSW. A significant number of errors have been -corrected. And finally, two more controversial changes have been -made. First, OSW contains a small number of words which are not valid -Scrabble plays according to American rules. These include foreign -words (bitte), words with no part of speech (winna) and words -containing capital letters (pH). These words have been removed from -the ABLE list. Additionally, in the process of revising ABLE, we -discovered a number of cases where we believe the compilers of OSW -have misinterpreted Chambers. There are both words whose inclusion -is not justified (chilioi, which appears only in an etymology) and -words which should have been included but were not (coinop). We -have corrected both sorts of errors, and regard these changes as -"signature words" for ABLE. (Perhaps a better term would be "signature -corrections", as some words were removed rather than added.) - -Further information on Alan Beale's researches on ABLE, including the -complete ABLE list without removal of words duplicated in ENABLE, is -available as an additional supplement to ENABLE2K. This supplement -also contains full lists of the invalid Scrabble words and the -"signature corrections". - - -By combining the "ABLE.LST" file from this archive with "WORD.LST" -from ENABLE2K, interested parties can create a workable version of the -"SOWPODS" list beloved of tournament word gamers. This may be accomplished -either using Alan Beale's "makelist" utility or by a simple UNIX pipe -(cat WORD.LST ABLE.LST | sort | uniq > SOWPODS.LST).