Australian-English Spelling Dictionary

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Objectives

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 2.0 [2].

The object of this project is improve the organisation and maintenance of the Australian English Spelling Dictionary.

The current dictionary is based on the the United Kingdom English word list with an ad hoc collection of 'Australian' words added. I 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.

To improve the maintenance and auditability 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.

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
  • Hunspell is a spell checker and morphological analyzer library and program designed for languages with rich morphology and complex compounding or character encoding. Hunspell interfaces: Curses, Ispell compatible pipe interface, OpenOffice.org UNO module
  • The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million place names that are available for download free of charge. The Australian place names list - AU.zip
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