English Dictionaries Project (AOO+Mozilla+others)
For many years that people stopped maintaining dictionaries for open-source software.
It would be great to continue their work and improve existing dictionaries or create new ones.
The biggest issue is that most of these dictionaries are obfuscated (codified in a way that only certain software packages can access the wordlists) and the original developers are long-gone to provide the clean text ones.
In some cases, we will have to start from a long-time gone position, the last known clean text version of the dictionary.
Modifying, updating and maintaining a dictionary is a hard task but an important one for current and future generations.
The dictionaries here are the most recent versions available, and this repository makes it easier for developers to find all in one place and take the .AFF and .DIC files to use them in projects with proofing — or spellchecking — functionalities.
I (Marco Pinto) am only improving the en_GB. Kevin Atkinson maintains the en_AU, en_US and en_CA. Please contact Kevin directly for the latter three: https://github.com/en-wl/wordlist, http://wordlist.aspell.net. Dwayne Bailey no longer maintains the en_ZA, and I have done a few fixes in it myself.
I will release monthly updates. AOO admins may disable automatic updates when they are about to release a new version of AOO, so that when you install their package, you won't be prompted to update the dictionaries.
Both extensions for AOO and LO are identical, basically the only differences is the wording of “for OpenOffice 4.0+”/“for LibreOffice 4.0+” and the extension sites URLs.
Notice the “en_GB_speller_for_Mozilla+AOO+LO_2013+.txt” above, where I keep a changelog.
I keep notes of the most recent releases for Mozilla, BlueGriffon, AOO and LO on the Proofing Tool GUI (PTG) website: https://proofingtoolgui.org
- .AFF + .DIC + README + WORDLIST.
- en_AU (Kevin Atkinson) — BSD/MIT-Like;
- en_CA (Kevin Atkinson) — BSD/MIT-Like;
- en_GB (Marco A.G.Pinto) — LGPL;
- en_US (Kevin Atkinson) — BSD/MIT-Like;
- en_ZA (Dwayne Bailey) — LGPL.
First, check the wordlist .txt file inside the folder of the latest en_GB. If the words aren't there:
- Open an issue or e-mail Marco Pinto ( marcoagpinto AT sapo.pt ) with the suggested words.
If you know of any projects that use them, please let me know, and I will list them on the official PTG page.
I have been publicly attacked regarding my dictionary, even in front of other developers. They only know how to criticise instead of suggesting words/fixes for the dictionary. There are millions of words, and I can't find them all by myself.
This is a serious project, I have been paying out of my own pocket hundreds of EUR per year for web hosting, domains, premium account in Oxford Dictionaries, etc. so that people can enjoy quality work freely.
Open-source is almost all I have left in life.