According to Alexander I. Lebedev:
> Thank you for the patch. I tested the updated version of 3.1.5 and
> it works great! (The problems with endings in Russian disappeared.)
> I'll test the program thoroughly tomorrow.
>
> The only thing that surprised me was that words "highness", "likeness",
> and "witness" were already in the English word list, so there was no need
> in high/P, like/P, and wit/P forms at all. Has anybody checked the
> redundancy of the list?
No, not that I know of. We pretty much just used it as-is from the
ispell dictionary distribution, I think. In fact, the english.0 and
english.aff files haven't changed since 3.0.8b2 back in 1997, so any
checking done on them (beyond what the ispell folks have done) would
likely have been by Andrew, if at all. I think that as far as ispell
is concerned, redundancy doesn't matter. It's only because htfuzzy uses
these files for a more specialized purpose that we need more accuracy.
I don't doubt that if we looked hard enough, or wrote a program to look
for such redundancies, we'd find several more. I guess the question is
whether it's worth the effort. In 4 years we've had one complaint about
inaccurate word roots, which my patch corrects. If any others come up,
we can correct them as we go, now that we know better how to deal with
them.
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Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766
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