========================================================================
* README
========================================================================

GNU Aspell 0.50 English Dictionary Package
Version 6.0-0
2004-08-10
Original Word List By:
  Kevin Atkinson <kevina at gnu org>
Copyright Terms: Copyrighted (see the file Copyright for the exact terms)
Wordlist URL: http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/
Source Verson: 6
This word list is considered both complete and accurate.

This is the English dictionary for Aspell.  It requires Aspell
version 0.50 or better.

If Aspell is installed and aspell and word-list-compress are all
in the path first do a:

  ./configure

Which should output something like:

  Finding Dictionary file location ... /usr/local/lib/aspell
  Finding Data file location ... /usr/local/share/aspell

if it did not something likely went wrong.

After that build the package with:
  make
and then install it with
  make install

If any of the above mentioned programs are not in your path than the
variables, ASPELL and/or PREZIP need to be set to the
commands (with path) to run the utilities.  These variables may be set
in the environment before configure is run or specified at the command
line using the following syntax
  ./configure --vars VAR1=VAL1 ...
Other useful variables configure recognizes are ASPELL_PARMS, and DESTDIR.

To clean up after the build:
  make clean

To uninstall the files:
  make uninstall

After the dictionaries are installed you can use the main one (en) by
setting the LANG environmental variable to en or running Aspell
with "--lang=en".  You may also chose the dictionary directly
with the "-d" or "--master" option of Aspell.  You can chose from any of
the following dictionaries:
  en-variant_0 (english-variant_0)
  en-variant_1 (english-variant_1)
  en-variant_2 (english-variant_2)
  en-w_accents (english-w_accents)
  en-wo_accents (en english english-wo_accents)
  en_CA-w_accents (canadian-w_accents)
  en_CA-wo_accents (canadian canadian-wo_accents en_CA)
  en_GB-ise-w_accents (british-ise-w_accents british-w_accents
                       en_GB-w_accents)
  en_GB-ise-wo_accents (british british-ise british-ise-wo_accents
                        british-wo_accents en_GB en_GB-ise
                        en_GB-wo_accents)
  en_GB-ize-w_accents (british-ize-w_accents)
  en_GB-ize-wo_accents (british-ize british-ize-wo_accents en_GB-ize)
  en_US-w_accents (american-w_accents)
  en_US-wo_accents (american american-wo_accents en_US)
Whereas the names in parentheses are alternate names for the
dictionary preceding the parentheses.

The individual word lists have an extension of ".cwl" and are
compressed to save space.  To uncompress a word list use
"word-list-compress < BASE.cwl > BASE.wl" or simply
"word-list-compress < BASE.cwl" to dump it to standard output.

If you have any problem with installing or using the word lists please
let the Aspell maintainer, Kevin Atkinson, know at kevina@gnu.org.

If you have problems with the actual word lists please contact one of
the Word lists authors as the Aspell maintainer does not maintain the
actual Word Lists.

Any additional documentation that came with the original word list can
be found in the doc/ directory.

INFORMATION ON THE PROVIDED DICTIONARIES

This word list package supports the following dialects of English:

  American (en_US)
  British with "ise" spelling (en_GB-ise)
  British with "ize" spelling (en_GB-ize)
  Canadian (en_CA)

In addition generic English (en) is supported which is a combination
of all the above (which turns out to be just a combination of en_US
with en_GB-ise).

For each dialect there is the option to either strip accents (for
example cafe) or keep them (for example café).  The default is to
strip them.

Combining these two options gives the following dictionaries.

  en_US-wo_accents
  en_US-w_accents
  en_GB-ise-wo_accents
  en_GB-ise-w_accents
  en_GB-ize-wo_accents
  en_GB-ize-w_accents
  en_CA-wo_accents
  en_CA-w_accents
  en-wo_accents
  en-w_accents

in addition to the following aliases:

  en_US = en_US-wo_accents
  en_GB = en_GB-ise-wo_accents
  en_GB-ise = en_GB-ise-wo_accents
  en_GB-ize = en_GB-ize-wo_accents
  en_GB-wo_accents = en_GB-ise-wo_accents
  en_GB-w_accents = en_GB-ize-w_accents
  en_CA = en_CA-wo_accents
  en = en-wo_accents

  american-* = en_US-*
  britsh-* = en_GB-*
  canadian-* = en_CA-*
  english-* = en-*

If you are using Aspell 0.60 these aliases can be changed locally via
"dict-alias" option.  For example if you prefer the "ize" spelling for
British English add the line:

  add-dict-alias en_GB en_GB-ize

to ".aspell.conf".

Great care has been taken so that that only one spelling for any
particular word is included in the main dictionary.  When two variants
were considered equal I randomly picked one for inclusion in the main
word list.  Unfortunately this means that my choice in how to spell a
word may not match your choice.  For this reason the following
auxiliary dictionaries are provided:

  en-variant_0
  en-variant_1
  en-variant_2

These dictionaries are meant to be used in addition to one of the
standard dictionaries. To specify them use the "extra-dicts" option.
The "en-variant_0" dictionary includes most variants which are
considered almost equal, "en-variant_1" includes variants which are
generally considered acceptable, and "variant_2" contains variants
which are seldom used.  It is only necessary to use on of these
dictionaries since "en-variant_1" includes all the words in
"en-variant_0" and "en-variant_2" includes all the words in both
"en-variant_0" and "en-variant_1".

UPGRADING FROM ASPELL6-EN-0.01

If you are upgrading from the aspell6-en-0.01 package you should do a

  rm `aspell config dict-dir`/en[-_]*.alias

to remove any old alias.  Otherwise aspell may get confused as this
version installs the alias with the ".multi" extension instead of
the ".alias" extension.

========================================================================
* README.utf8
========================================================================

GNU Aspell 0.50 English Dictionary Package
Version 6.0-0
2004-08-10
Original Word List By:
  Kevin Atkinson <kevina at gnu org>
Copyright Terms: Copyrighted (see the file Copyright for the exact terms)
Wordlist URL: http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/
Source Verson: 6
This word list is considered both complete and accurate.

This is the English dictionary for Aspell.  It requires Aspell
version 0.50 or better.

If Aspell is installed and aspell and word-list-compress are all
in the path first do a:

  ./configure

Which should output something like:

  Finding Dictionary file location ... /usr/local/lib/aspell
  Finding Data file location ... /usr/local/share/aspell

if it did not something likely went wrong.

After that build the package with:
  make
and then install it with
  make install

If any of the above mentioned programs are not in your path than the
variables, ASPELL and/or PREZIP need to be set to the
commands (with path) to run the utilities.  These variables may be set
in the environment before configure is run or specified at the command
line using the following syntax
  ./configure --vars VAR1=VAL1 ...
Other useful variables configure recognizes are ASPELL_PARMS, and DESTDIR.

To clean up after the build:
  make clean

To uninstall the files:
  make uninstall

After the dictionaries are installed you can use the main one (en) by
setting the LANG environmental variable to en or running Aspell
with "--lang=en".  You may also chose the dictionary directly
with the "-d" or "--master" option of Aspell.  You can chose from any of
the following dictionaries:
  en-variant_0 (english-variant_0)
  en-variant_1 (english-variant_1)
  en-variant_2 (english-variant_2)
  en-w_accents (english-w_accents)
  en-wo_accents (en english english-wo_accents)
  en_CA-w_accents (canadian-w_accents)
  en_CA-wo_accents (canadian canadian-wo_accents en_CA)
  en_GB-ise-w_accents (british-ise-w_accents british-w_accents
                       en_GB-w_accents)
  en_GB-ise-wo_accents (british british-ise british-ise-wo_accents
                        british-wo_accents en_GB en_GB-ise
                        en_GB-wo_accents)
  en_GB-ize-w_accents (british-ize-w_accents)
  en_GB-ize-wo_accents (british-ize british-ize-wo_accents en_GB-ize)
  en_US-w_accents (american-w_accents)
  en_US-wo_accents (american american-wo_accents en_US)
Whereas the names in parentheses are alternate names for the
dictionary preceding the parentheses.

The individual word lists have an extension of ".cwl" and are
compressed to save space.  To uncompress a word list use
"word-list-compress < BASE.cwl > BASE.wl" or simply
"word-list-compress < BASE.cwl" to dump it to standard output.

If you have any problem with installing or using the word lists please
let the Aspell maintainer, Kevin Atkinson, know at kevina@gnu.org.

If you have problems with the actual word lists please contact one of
the Word lists authors as the Aspell maintainer does not maintain the
actual Word Lists.

Any additional documentation that came with the original word list can
be found in the doc/ directory.

INFORMATION ON THE PROVIDED DICTIONARIES

This word list package supports the following dialects of English:

  American (en_US)
  British with "ise" spelling (en_GB-ise)
  British with "ize" spelling (en_GB-ize)
  Canadian (en_CA)

In addition generic English (en) is supported which is a combination
of all the above (which turns out to be just a combination of en_US
with en_GB-ise).

For each dialect there is the option to either strip accents (for
example cafe) or keep them (for example café).  The default is to
strip them.

Combining these two options gives the following dictionaries.

  en_US-wo_accents
  en_US-w_accents
  en_GB-ise-wo_accents
  en_GB-ise-w_accents
  en_GB-ize-wo_accents
  en_GB-ize-w_accents
  en_CA-wo_accents
  en_CA-w_accents
  en-wo_accents
  en-w_accents

in addition to the following aliases:

  en_US = en_US-wo_accents
  en_GB = en_GB-ise-wo_accents
  en_GB-ise = en_GB-ise-wo_accents
  en_GB-ize = en_GB-ize-wo_accents
  en_GB-wo_accents = en_GB-ise-wo_accents
  en_GB-w_accents = en_GB-ize-w_accents
  en_CA = en_CA-wo_accents
  en = en-wo_accents

  american-* = en_US-*
  britsh-* = en_GB-*
  canadian-* = en_CA-*
  english-* = en-*

If you are using Aspell 0.60 these aliases can be changed locally via
"dict-alias" option.  For example if you prefer the "ize" spelling for
British English add the line:

  add-dict-alias en_GB en_GB-ize

to ".aspell.conf".

Great care has been taken so that that only one spelling for any
particular word is included in the main dictionary.  When two variants
were considered equal I randomly picked one for inclusion in the main
word list.  Unfortunately this means that my choice in how to spell a
word may not match your choice.  For this reason the following
auxiliary dictionaries are provided:

  en-variant_0
  en-variant_1
  en-variant_2

These dictionaries are meant to be used in addition to one of the
standard dictionaries. To specify them use the "extra-dicts" option.
The "en-variant_0" dictionary includes most variants which are
considered almost equal, "en-variant_1" includes variants which are
generally considered acceptable, and "variant_2" contains variants
which are seldom used.  It is only necessary to use on of these
dictionaries since "en-variant_1" includes all the words in
"en-variant_0" and "en-variant_2" includes all the words in both
"en-variant_0" and "en-variant_1".

UPGRADING FROM ASPELL6-EN-0.01

If you are upgrading from the aspell6-en-0.01 package you should do a

  rm `aspell config dict-dir`/en[-_]*.alias

to remove any old alias.  Otherwise aspell may get confused as this
version installs the alias with the ".multi" extension instead of
the ".alias" extension.

========================================================================
* Copyright
========================================================================


This English word list is comes directly from SCOWL 6 (up to level 60, using
the src/make-aspell-dict script, http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/) and is
thus under the same copyright of SCOWL.  The affix file (only included in
the aspell6 package) is based on the Ispell one which is under the same
copyright of Ispell.  Part of SCOWL is also based on Ispell thus the Ispell
copyright is included with the SCOWL copyright.

The collective work is Copyright 2000-2004 by Kevin Atkinson as well
as any of the copyrights mentioned below:

  Copyright 2000-2004 by Kevin Atkinson

  Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell these word
  lists, the associated scripts, the output created from the scripts,
  and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee,
  provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and
  that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
  supporting documentation. Kevin Atkinson makes no representations
  about the suitability of this array for any purpose. It is provided
  "as is" without express or implied warranty.

Alan Beale <biljir@pobox.com> also deserves special credit as he has,
in addition to providing the 12Dicts package and being a major
contributor to the ENABLE word list, given me an incredible amount of
feedback and created a number of special lists (those found in the
Supplement) in order to help improve the overall quality of SCOWL.

The 10 level includes the 1000 most common English words (according to
the Moby (TM) Words II [MWords] package), a subset of the 1000 most
common words on the Internet (again, according to Moby Words II), and
frequently class 16 from Brian Kelk's "UK English Wordlist
with Frequency Classification".

The MWords package was explicitly placed in the public domain:

    The Moby lexicon project is complete and has
    been place into the public domain. Use, sell,
    rework, excerpt and use in any way on any platform.

    Placing this material on internal or public servers is
    also encouraged. The compiler is not aware of any
    export restrictions so freely distribute world-wide.

    You can verify the public domain status by contacting

    Grady Ward
    3449 Martha Ct.
    Arcata, CA  95521-4884

    grady@netcom.com
    grady@northcoast.com

The "UK English Wordlist With Frequency Classification" is also in the
Public Domain:

  Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 20:27:21 +0100
  From: Brian Kelk <Brian.Kelk@cl.cam.ac.uk>

  > I was wondering what the copyright status of your "UK English
  > Wordlist With Frequency Classification" word list as it seems to
  > be lacking any copyright notice.

  There were many many sources in total, but any text marked
  "copyright" was avoided. Locally-written documentation was one
  source. An earlier version of the list resided in a filespace called
  PUBLIC on the University mainframe, because it was considered public
  domain.

  Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 19:31:34 +0100

  > So are you saying your word list is also in the public domain?

  That is the intention.

The 20 level includes frequency classes 7-15 from Brian's word list.

The 35 level includes frequency classes 2-6 and words appearing in at
least 11 of 12 dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts package.  All
words from the 12Dicts package have had likely inflections added via
my inflection database.

The 12Dicts package and Supplement is in the Public Domain.

The WordNet database, which was used in the creation of the
Inflections database, is under the following copyright:

  This software and database is being provided to you, the LICENSEE,
  by Princeton University under the following license.  By obtaining,
  using and/or copying this software and database, you agree that you
  have read, understood, and will comply with these terms and
  conditions.:

  Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and
  database and its documentation for any purpose and without fee or
  royalty is hereby granted, provided that you agree to comply with
  the following copyright notice and statements, including the
  disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of the software,
  database and documentation, including modifications that you make
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  WordNet 1.6 Copyright 1997 by Princeton University.  All rights
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  Princeton University and LICENSEE agrees to preserve same.

The 40 level includes words from Alan's 3esl list found in version 4.0
of his 12dicts package.  Like his other stuff the 3esl list is also in the
public domain.

The 50 level includes Brian's frequency class 1, words words appearing
in at least 5 of 12 of the dictionaries as indicated in the 12Dicts
package, and uppercase words in at least 4 of the previous 12
dictionaries.  A decent number of proper names is also included: The
top 1000 male, female, and Last names from the 1990 Census report; a
list of names sent to me by Alan Beale; and a few names that I added
myself.  Finally a small list of abbreviations not commonly found in
other word lists is included.

The name files form the Census report is a government document which I
don't think can be copyrighted.

The file special-jargon.50 uses common.lst and word.lst from the
"Unofficial Jargon File Word Lists" which is derived from "The Jargon
File".  All of which is in the Public Domain.  This file also contain
a few extra UNIX terms which are found in the file "unix-terms" in the
special/ directory.

The 55 level includes words from Alan's 2of4brif list found in version
4.0 of his 12dicts package.  Like his other stuff the 2of4brif is also
in the public domain.

The 60 level includes Brian's frequency class 0 and all words
appearing in at least 2 of the 12 dictionaries as indicated by the
12Dicts package.  A large number of names are also included: The 4,946
female names and the 3,897 male names from the MWords package.

The 70 level includes the 74,550 common dictionary words and the
21,986 names list from the MWords package The common dictionary words,
like those from the 12Dicts package, have had all likely inflections
added.  The 70 level also included the 5desk list from version 4.0 of
the 12Dics package which is the public domain

The 80 level includes the ENABLE word list, all the lists in the
ENABLE supplement package (except for ABLE), the "UK Advanced Cryptics
Dictionary" (UKACD), the list of signature words in from YAWL package,
and the 10,196 places list from the MWords package.

The ENABLE package, mainted by M\Cooper <thegrendel@theriver.com>,
is in the Public Domain:

  The ENABLE master word list, WORD.LST, is herewith formally released
  into the Public Domain. Anyone is free to use it or distribute it in
  any manner they see fit. No fee or registration is required for its
  use nor are "contributions" solicited (if you feel you absolutely
  must contribute something for your own peace of mind, the authors of
  the ENABLE list ask that you make a donation on their behalf to your
  favorite charity). This word list is our gift to the Scrabble
  community, as an alternate to "official" word lists. Game designers
  may feel free to incorporate the WORD.LST into their games. Please
  mention the source and credit us as originators of the list. Note
  that if you, as a game designer, use the WORD.LST in your product,
  you may still copyright and protect your product, but you may *not*
  legally copyright or in any way restrict redistribution of the
  WORD.LST portion of your product. This *may* under law restrict your
  rights to restrict your users' rights, but that is only fair.

UKACD, by J Ross Beresford <ross@bryson.demon.co.uk>, is under the
following copyright:

  Copyright (c) J Ross Beresford 1993-1999. All Rights Reserved.

  The following restriction is placed on the use of this publication:
  if The UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary is used in a software package
  or redistributed in any form, the copyright notice must be
  prominently displayed and the text of this document must be included
  verbatim.

  There are no other restrictions: I would like to see the list
  distributed as widely as possible.

The 95 level includes the 354,984 single words and 256,772 compound
words from the MWords package, ABLE.LST from the ENABLE Supplement,
and some additional words found in my part-of-speech database that
were not found anywhere else.

Accent information was taken from UKACD.

My VARCON package was used to create the American, British, and
Canadian word list.

Since the original word lists used used in the VARCON package came
from the Ispell distribution they are under the Ispell copyright:

  Copyright 1993, Geoff Kuenning, Granada Hills, CA
  All rights reserved.

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  (clause 4 removed with permission from Geoff Kuenning)
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