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diff --git a/en/README_en_GB.txt b/en/README_en_GB.txt index 9bba23e..88656e1 100644 --- a/en/README_en_GB.txt +++ b/en/README_en_GB.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ This dictionary was initially based on a subset of the original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for Pspell and Aspell and thus is covered by his original -LGPL licence. +LGPL licence. It has been extensively updated by David Bartlett, Brian Kelk, Andrew Brown and Marco A.G.Pinto: @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ Andrew Brown and Marco A.G.Pinto: — Missing words have been added; — Many errors have been corrected; — Compound hyphenated words have been added where appropriate; - — Thousands of proper/places names have been added. + — Thousands of proper/places names have been added; + — Thousands of possessives have been added to nouns and proper names. Valuable inputs to this process were received from many other people — far too numerous to name. Serious thanks to you all @@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ OOo Issue 63541 — remove *dessicated 2018-05-01 — Andrew Ziem suggested a list of 328 names of famous people on Kevin's GitHub: "These 328 name tokens were derived from the top 100 lists in Google Trends via this repository (https://github.com/az0/google-trend-names). The geography was - set to US, and it spanned dates from 2004 to 2018." + set to US, and it spanned dates from 2004 to 2018." 2018-08-01 — Slightly higher quality icon — Added tons of drugs names supplied by the user Andrew Ziem on Kevin's GitHub — Fixed/improved flag "5": "women's" was missing @@ -103,7 +104,18 @@ to — Added tons of cities from the US with a 10 000+ population. This list was supplied by Michael Holroyd on Kevin Atkinson's GitHub. — Added tons of possessives to nouns, thanks to Jörg Knobloch. - +2018-12-01 — Added the cities from Canada: + — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Canada +2019-02-01 — Improved flag "5" thanks to the GitHub user Ding-adong: + Some "swomen's" and "women's" entries were missing. + — Fixed flag "3": -ists, -ists, -ist's → -ist, -ists, -ist's. + — Improved flag "N". +2019-03-01 — Added the LGPL_V3 License .txt into the Extension. + — Ding-adong added a flag "=" for suffixes: -lessness, -lessnesses, -lessness's. + — Ding-adong changed the prefix flag "O" to "^" since "O" was both prefix and suffix. + — Small fixes and enhancements on flags "z" and "O" by Ding-adong. +2019-04-01 — Improved flag "P" thanks to the GitHub user Ding-adong, giving also -nesses which + increased the wordlist in about 1800 valid words. ------- MARCO A.G.PINTO: @@ -118,9 +130,11 @@ The sources used to verify the spelling of the words I included in the dictionar 1) Oxford Dictionaries; 2) Collins Dictionary; 3) Macmillan Dictionary; - 4) Wiktionary (used with caution); - 5) Wikipedia (used with caution); - 6) Physical dictionaries. + 4) Cambridge Dictionary; + 5) Merriam-Webster Dictionary (used with caution ⚠); + 6) Wiktionary (used with caution ⚠); + 7) Wikipedia (used with caution ⚠); + 8) Physical dictionaries. Main difficulties developing this dictionary: 1) Proper names; |