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Bug 1240916 - Update the en-US dictionary to SCOWL 2016.01.19
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24 changes: 16 additions & 8 deletions extensions/spellcheck/locales/en-US/hunspell/README_en_US.txt
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en_US-mozilla Hunspell Dictionary
Generated from SCOWL Version 2015.08.24
Sun Jan 10 15:07:17 EST 2016
Generated from SCOWL Version 2016.01.19
Thu Jan 21 09:46:53 EST 2016

http://wordlist.sourceforge.net

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to encourage consistent spelling, generally only include one spelling
variant for a word. The large dictionaries correspond to SCOWL size
70 and may include multiple spelling for a word when both variants are
considered almost equal. Also, the general quality of the larger
dictionaries may also be less as they are not as carefully checked for
errors as the normal dictionaries.
considered almost equal. The larger dictionaries however (1) have not
been as carefully checked for errors as the normal dictionaries and
thus may contain misspelled or invalid words; and (2) contain
uncommon, yet valid, words that might cause problems as they are
likely to be misspellings of more common words (for example, "ort" and
"calender").

To get an idea of the difference in size, here are 25 random words
only found in the large dictionary for American English:
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[email protected].

If none of these dictionaries suite you (for example, maybe you want
the larger dictionary but only use spelling of a word) additional
the normal dictionary that also includes common variants) additional
dictionaries can be generated at http://app.aspell.net/create or by
modifying speller/make-hunspell-dict in SCOWL. Please do let me know
if you end up publishing a customized dictionary.
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have specific issues with any of these dictionaries please file a bug
report at https://github.com/kevina/wordlist/issues.

IMPORTANT CHANGES FROM 2015.02.15:
IMPORTANT CHANGES INTRODUCED IN 2015.04.24:

The dictionaries are now in UTF-8 format instead of ISO-8859-1. This
was required to handle smart quotes correctly.

IMPORTANT CHANGES INTRODUCED IN 2016.01.19:

"SET UTF8" was changes to "SET UTF-8" in the affix file as some
versions of Hunspell do not recognize "UTF8".

ADDITIONAL NOTES:

The NOSUGGEST flag was added to certain taboo words. While I made an
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ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Build Date: Sun Jan 10 15:07:17 EST 2016
Build Date: Thu Jan 21 09:46:53 EST 2016
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