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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English Australian-English] generally follows the conventions of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English British-English] rather than [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English American English]. It may useful to see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences American and British English differences]. | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English Australian-English] generally follows the conventions of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_English British-English] rather than [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English American English]. It may useful to see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences American and British English differences]. | ||
| − | The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macquarie_Dictionary Macquarie Dictionary] is generally used by publishers, schools, universities and governments as the standard spelling reference. I suggest using this dictionary as the projects authoritative reference. | + | The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macquarie_Dictionary Macquarie Dictionary] is generally used by publishers, schools, universities and governments as the standard spelling reference. " The dictionary records standard Australian English spelling, which is closer to British and Canadian English than American English, with spellings like ''colour'', ''centre'', ''defence'' and ''practice/practise'' (noun/verb). It also gives ''-ise'' spellings first, listing ''-ize'' spellings as acceptable variants, unlike the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary Oxford English Dictionary] and some other dictionaries of British English, that continue to prefer ''-ize'' to ''-ise'' in spite of the opposite tendency amongst the British general public (see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling Oxford spelling])." [http://en.wikipedia.org/Macquarie_Dictionary] |
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Revision as of 06:13, 11 June 2009
History
The Australian-English Spelling dictionary is currently packaged with the English dictionaries in the OpenOffice 3.1 distribution.
It is available as an add-on extension for OpenOffice 3.0 at [1]. And can be added to OpenOffice 2.X [2].
The current dictionary is based on the the United Kingdom English word list with an ad hoc collection of 'Australian' words added. I (David Wilson) have build up this list from a variety of public sources over several years, so that it includes place names, botanical and animal names, common personal names and 'Australianisms'. These have been added to an Australian word list over time.
The dictionary word list has been significantly increased by merging in a large number of new words from the British word lists in SCOWL (see links below).
Australian-English generally follows the conventions of British-English rather than American English. It may useful to see American and British English differences.
The Macquarie Dictionary is generally used by publishers, schools, universities and governments as the standard spelling reference. " The dictionary records standard Australian English spelling, which is closer to British and Canadian English than American English, with spellings like colour, centre, defence and practice/practise (noun/verb). It also gives -ise spellings first, listing -ize spellings as acceptable variants, unlike the Oxford English Dictionary and some other dictionaries of British English, that continue to prefer -ize to -ise in spite of the opposite tendency amongst the British general public (see Oxford spelling)." [3]
I suggest using this dictionary as the projects authoritative reference.
Objectives
The object of this project is improve the organisation and maintenance of the Australian-English Spelling Dictionary.
To improve the maintenance of the word list I propose to add structure to the project by maintaining separate word lists that are combined to produce the new versions of the Australian-English Spelling Dictionary. The separate word lists should help us to ensure we have the best coverage possible in each category.
The Australian-English Spelling Dictionary currently uses phonetic hints from the US-English Spelling Dictionary. These may need to be adjusted for Australian usage.
Proposed Australian Word list Categories
- Place Names
- Botanical Names (flora)
- Animal names (fauna)
- Australianism
- Common personal and family names
Links
- Kevin's Word List Page, including the official Hunspell en_UK, en_US and en_CA dictionaries, created from SCOWL (Spell Checker Oriented Word Lists). Revision 6 August 10, 2004 by Kevin Atkinson
- OpenOffice spelling checker is based on Hunspell. Which is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program designed for languages with rich morphology and complex compounding or character encoding.
