7th July 2002


This dictionary is 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 
license.  The affix file is a heavily modified version of the original 
english.aff file which was released as part of Geoff Kuenning's Ispell and as 
such is covered by his BSD license.

Thanks to both authors for their wonderful work.

The modifications for MySpell were started by Andrew Brown 
<alloneword@dial.pipex.com>. Much work was then done by Chris Cowsley and David 
Barnett. What we have now, after all this hacking and pruning, is by are by no 
means complete, but I think that most of the errors specific to British English 
have been removed, especially by the new affix file, which knows about doubling 
consonants in words like "cancelled"; and those that remain are probably errors 
in American English too. 

If you send me the horrors you find, I will update this.

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU FIND A MISTAEK

If you find a word -- presumably American -- that should not be in the 
dictionary, don't hesitate to delete it and send me a note. I will try and fix 
it, and send you the result. I post updates regularly, usually through 
OO_extras, and to a page linked off www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_main.html

I am working on a severe pruning of the dictionary, which will be accompanied by 
a web-based form for adding words that should be there. Once that has been done, 
it will be announced to the users list. 

If you find a word, or a wordform, that is missing, and sufficiently important 
to go in, I'd love to hear about that, too. 

Andrew Brown <alloneword@dial.pipex.com>
Updates _may_ be announced at http://www.thewormbook.com/helmintholog
