[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>These words, 830 of them, were obtained by intersecting the words
>in a number of lexicons and then subtracting the words in
>/usr/share/dict/web2. [snip]
>
>The point is *not* that these words should be added. The point is
>that a cursory, in-my-sleep check of the word list shows glaring
>deficiencies. A serious audit of the list will find way many more
>missing words (I did a preliminary -- think ~50,000-100,000
>missing words if it is supposed to approximate the contents of an
>unabridged dictionary.)
>
This is to be expected. The word list was created from an very old
Webster dictionary, because the copyright had to expire before it could
be used in an open source dictionary.
>Anyway, I'm willing to create a replacement list, if it's likely
>to actually get used.
>
That would be a welcome contribution to the project.
>Missing words: [Lots of them deleted]
>
Just my EUR.02
-Christoph Sold
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