British English Dictionary

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Peter Gordon scribebat:
Does anybody know of an English dictionary with British
spelling only?
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You can download one for aspell and ispell. At least there is one included
with AbiWord (ispell) and I have aspell installed which offers me a British
dictionary as well.
 
Mike said:
You, and I *wish*.

*sigh*
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Sorry, I should have been more precice. I was looking for a wordlist
of words with British spelling. I found the aspell one at:
http://www.mieliestronk.com/wordlist.html

It has 58000 plus words. It recognises colour but not color,
grey but not gray.

The list is missing some derivitives of a word.
e.g, (off the top of my head) it would contain
empty but not empties.
 
Peter Gordon said:
Does anybody know of an English dictionary with British
spelling only?

Thanks
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I covered this recently under the subject "Word Finder". I'll repeat the
URLS below:

Look at:

TEA (The Electronic Alveary). AFAIK this is the freeware DOS version which
runs ok on Windows, including XP. There are some other programs on this site
which are worth looking at.
http://www.bookcase.com/library/software/msdos.util.text.html

WORDFIND
http://www.andyscouse.com/pages/wordfind_download.htm

You can also find some useful links to word lists etc at:
http://www.puzzlers.org/

===

Frank Bohan
¶ Climbing up the walls burns 150 calories per hour.
 
He, he ... "British" English ? SOOO FUNNY !

You probably mean, "English" English ?

[British being an 'amalgam' of three countries - see International
Sports events if you doubt me]
 
On 21 Jan 2005, Peter Gordon wrote
Does anybody know of an English dictionary with British
spelling only?
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Do you mean a general dictionary, or a spell-check one?

In terms of general dictionaries, I don't know of one which would
include *only* BrEng spelling: that wouldn't be a valid approach to
compiling a comprehensive dictionary.

(What I mean is that Collins, for example, uses the BrEng forms to
alphabetise the head words, but includes AmEng alternatives under the
relevant entry.)
 
He, he ... "British" English ? SOOO FUNNY !

You probably mean, "English" English ?

[British being an 'amalgam' of three countries - see International
Sports events if you doubt me]
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England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland = 4
 
On 21 Jan 2005, Peter Gordon wrote


Do you mean a general dictionary, or a spell-check one?

In terms of general dictionaries, I don't know of one which would
include *only* BrEng spelling: that wouldn't be a valid approach to
compiling a comprehensive dictionary.

(What I mean is that Collins, for example, uses the BrEng forms to
alphabetise the head words, but includes AmEng alternatives under the
relevant entry.)
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I wanted a word list of British only, not American spelt words. I
found one at http://www.mieliestronk.com/wordlist.html

Thanks.
 
abuse@ said:
[British being an 'amalgam' of three countries - see International
Sports events if you doubt me]
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England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland = 4
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England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland = 4 = United Kingdom.

England, Scotland and Wales = 3 = Britain.
 
He, he ... "British" English ? SOOO FUNNY !

You probably mean, "English" English ?

[British being an 'amalgam' of three countries - see International
Sports events if you doubt me]
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Usually referred to as UK English. English spelling as used in the
British Isles, the term 'British' in this sense, is correct.
 
My UK spelling checker finds some misspelled words in this list,
also several unkown words (local to Sth Africa I guess). I've only
looked at the lower-case list. YMMV.
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Digging around has found this UK word list:
<http://www.bckelk.uklinux.net/menu.html>

Scroll down page to Wordlists:
"UK English wordlist with frequency classification, version 1.01 (zip,
200k). 57000 words. No proper names. Includes hyphenated words.
Intended to be suitable for checking spelling."

Seems quite good. GNU licence, compiled for UNIX so requires CR
conversion if using on MS OS's. CryptEdit makes this a painless
operation.

Lots of interesting [lexical] stuff at above link.
 
Digging around has found this UK word list:
<http://www.bckelk.uklinux.net/menu.html>

Scroll down page to Wordlists:
"UK English wordlist with frequency classification, version 1.01 (zip,
200k). 57000 words. No proper names. Includes hyphenated words.
Intended to be suitable for checking spelling."

Seems quite good. GNU licence, compiled for UNIX so requires CR
conversion if using on MS OS's. CryptEdit makes this a painless
operation.

Lots of interesting [lexical] stuff at above link.
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Thanks Mike,
I have down loaded it and will check it out.

Cheers,

Peter Gordon
 
Henry K said:
He, he ... "British" English ? SOOO FUNNY !

You probably mean, "English" English ?

[British being an 'amalgam' of three countries - see International
Sports events if you doubt me]
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England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland = 4
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The full title is United Kingdom of Great Britain AND Northern Ireland - ie
the Britain bit is 3 parts only.
 
the man with no idea said:
Henry K said:
Usual Suspect said:
He, he ... "British" English ? SOOO FUNNY !

You probably mean, "English" English ?

[British being an 'amalgam' of three countries - see International
Sports events if you doubt me]
Click to expand...

England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland = 4
Click to expand...
The full title is United Kingdom of Great Britain AND Northern Ireland - ie
the Britain bit is 3 parts only.
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There is no confusion.

I referred to Great Britain : England, Scotland and Wales.

You referred to the UK : Great Britain PLUS N.Ireland.


PS Hope you find an idea soon ... ;-))
 
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