Re: missing words, lots of them

2001-11-08 Thread Joseph Jacobson
> These words, 830 of them, were obtained by intersecting the words > in a number of lexicons and then subtracting the words in > /usr/share/dict/web2. This all done with words that contain only > lowercase letters. > > You'll find those words at the end of this message. Should you > take even a

Re: missing words, lots of them

2001-09-25 Thread admin
> > I know. :) However, there are several lexicons that have > > acceptable copyrights. E.g., the Moby list, though I have some > > reservations about it, is public domain. So there's no good reason > > to live with an archaic list. > > What excactly does `acceptable' mean for you ... The BSD copy

Re: missing words, lots of them

2001-09-25 Thread admin
Christoph Sold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is to be expected. The word list was created from an very old > Webster dictionary, because the copyright had to expire before it could > be used in an open source dictionary. I know. :) However, there are several lexicon

Re: missing words, lots of them

2001-09-25 Thread Christoph Sold
The word list was created from an very old Webster dictionary, because the copyright had to expire before it could be used in an open source dictionary. >Anyway, I'm willing to create a replacement list, if it's likely >to actually get used. > That would be a welcome contrib

missing words, lots of them

2001-09-25 Thread admin
These words, 830 of them, were obtained by intersecting the words in a number of lexicons and then subtracting the words in /usr/share/dict/web2. This all done with words that contain only lowercase letters. You'll find those words at the end of this message. Should you take even a cursory look a