Subject: Ispell Word Lists
From: Kevin Atkinson (kevina@users.sourceforge.net)
Date: Sat May 12 2001 - 15:56:05 CDT
If you are going to "insist" on using Ispell (really I understand your
reasons, but as the Aspell author I have my bias). May I recommend you
consider using the Aspell word lists rather than the Ispell ones for the
English dictionaries as they are significantly more complete and accurate,
and also contains one for Canadian spelling. The down size is they
contain a decent deal larger number of words than the ispell
dictionaries.
You can get at the word lists by doing the following on a system that has
Aspell installed.
aspell dump master american > american.lst
aspell dump master british > british.lst
aspell dump master canadian > canadian.lst
The order the words are returned is essentially random (the order they appear
in the hash tables) so you might want to throw in a sort.
I suggest doing this with the latest version of Aspell. The word lists
gets better with each sequential version of Aspell and Aspell .33.0 has
a few common words missing due to bugs in the word list creation process.
I could easily send the lists to someone if that will be easier.
--- Kevin Atkinson kevina at users sourceforge net http://www.ibiblio.org/kevina/
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