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Ian,

I can comment only on the en-GB dictionary. I'm in the process of doing an
update at the moment which I hope to submit in a few weeks time.

Ian D. Bollinger wrote:
| H'm.  I assume this is the correct venue to mention words which are
| missing from a dictionary, is it not?  Also, is it possible to submit

Missing words are relatively easy to find - the hard ones are words in the
dictionary that are wrong, and this is where I'm focusing effort at the moment.

| Both dictionaries are also missing the alternate spellings slinked and
| wrapt.

Neither "slinked" nor "wrapt" are listed in either my Chambers or OED.

| The dictionaries have the spelling m�l�e but not melee, which is not the

"melee" is listed as US, "m�l�e" as GB in my OED.

| The dictionaries have the spelling facade but not fa�ade; the former is

The GB dictionary has "fa�ade" in it.

| esoteric words: baronetess, cutpurse, de, doppelganger, er, ichor,
| imperator, judicator, marquessate, moonrise, moonset, nescience,
| pikeman, pikemen, pontifex, puzzlingly, rainforest, slinked, spearman,
| thaumaturgy, unreachably, and viscounty.

de, er, moonrise, pikeman, pikemen, puzzlingly, rainforest are all in the
en-GB dictionary. The rest are probably best not included.

| Finally, however, both dictionaries are missing the word okay (an
| alternate spelling of OK, sadly).  This seems like an extremely common

okay is missing and should probably be in.

| At any rate, is there anything I can do to help?

I'd appreciate any feedback and observations on the en-GB dictionary - just
drop me a line directly. The main thing I'm interested in is weeding out
errors that are still in the dictionary. :-)

I don't have anything to do with the en-US dictionary though.

Cheers
David Bartlett
(en_GB)
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