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- SHORT: Big English dictionary for AlphaSpell V
- Type: text/edit
- Uploader: fdnh@troi.cc.rochester.edu
- Author: Fergus Duniho and Ross Beresford
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- This dictionary is based on version 1.3 of Ross Beresford's "UK
- Advanced Cryptics Dictionary." This is "a word list for crossword solvers
- and setters." The main differences between Ross Beresford's original
- dictionary and the AlphaSpell dictionary are these. (1) The AlphaSpell
- dictionary is one file, and the original dictionary is 26 files. (2) The
- AlphaSpell dictionary is compressed, and the original dictionary is
- straight ASCII. (3) The original dictionary contained phrases as well as
- words, but the AlphaSpell dictionary does not contain the phrases. This is
- because AlphaSpell is primarily a spelling checker, and it only checks
- words against words, not against phrases.
-
- Although AlphaSpell is primarily a spelling checker, it can also be
- used to solve crossword puzzles. For example, if you're looking for a five
- letter word whose second letter is p, you could send the pattern "?p???" to
- AlphaSpell. AlphaSpell is also useful for solving scrambled word puzzles.
- To get AlphaSpell, download /text/edit/ASpell5.lha from the Aminet.
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