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- Here are the spelling checker dictionaries that I know of:
-
- My own, used on ISPELL on MIT-XX and SPELL on MIT-AI, ML, MC, and DM.
- This is rather small (about 15000 entries with flags for 39000 words).
- It has "suffix flags" that enable ISPELL to check suffixes with
- no guesswork whatever. Other spell checkers have "heuristics" that
- frequently go wrong (e.g. they might consider WENTED or BOOKNESS to
- be words). See the file INFO;SPELL > on any ITS machine for documentation
- of these flags. The dictionary itself is on [MIT-ML]WBA;DICT > or
- [MIT-XX]SRC:<WBA>SPELL.DCT.
-
- The standard DEC TOPS-20 spelling checker, when asked to dump its master
- dictionary, kindly provided the file [MIT-XX]SS:<WBA>DICT.OUT. It contains
- 42000 words.
-
- The file [MIT-MC]MOON2;DICT NOHYPH had 29000 words. It has been
- backed up on tape and deleted but could be recovered if you are
- interested.
-
- The file [MIT-ML]DPR;NEW DICT is probably a copy of the very extensive
- dictionary from MULTICS. It, too, has been backed up and deleted.
-
- The official MULTICS spelling checker's dictionary is available as
- [MIT-MULTICS]>aml>english.dict, with about 80000 words.
-
- The spelling check program runnable on DM by typing :DICT;SPELL is
- (was?) maintained by BKD@DM. If asked to dump its dictionary, it provides
- about 77000 words.
-
- An unabridged dictionary (probably much larger than one wants for a
- spelling check program) can be found on [MIT-XX]SS:<DOCUMENTATION>UNABRD.DIC.
- It is said to have come from the Stanford AI lab. I estimate that it
- has about 750000 words.
-
- An unabridged dictionary can also be found on [MIT-VAX]/src/dict/Webster2.dict.
- It seems to be similar, if not identical, to the one in the preceding
- paragraph.
-
- There is said to be a large dictionary owned by Kazar@CMU-10a.
-
- Other dictionaries (and lots of information about the whole subject) can
- be obtained from University of Texas by contacting AMSLER@UTEXAS
- (Robert Amsler) or CLIVE@UTEXAS (Clive Dawson). There is a sizable
- English lexicography research project at UTexas.