Re: Spell Checker

Richard Lynch wrote:

You may find a longer (possibly better, or not) list of words in: /usr/share/dict/web2 Or similar location. Here is the README from that directory:

#       @(#)README      8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93

# $FreeBSD: src/share/dict/README,v 1.7.2.2 2002/08/20 21:42:32 alfred Exp $ WEB ---- (introduction provided by jaw@riacs) ------------------------- Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.

I did find a wordlist named web2 that contained roughly that number of words, unfortunately it contained far too much noise to be useful for this utility. For example it had a-z as single letters instead of just 'a' and 'i' which really messed it up. Of course if I was going to use it in a production system it would evolve over time, and I might take the time to clean a wordlist such as this to remove noise like that. Thanks for the suggestion tho.

Dictionaries for other languages, e.g. Afrikaans, American, Aussie, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Yiddish, are available at ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists.

The table has a field for the language. My original intention was to import wordlists in several languages and to add a language selection field to the form, but it started to seem more like work than play so I didn't bother. It would be trivial to add tho. -Stut