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nkuitse (193)
Thursday April 08, 2004
03:25 PM
Harmless drudgery
I don't know if anyone's interested, but I've released a new version of my English word list:
It's small, sleek, and the cause of much typing and eye strain for yours truly.
Factoids...
Number of entries: 50,000
Number of entries that I've checked: 50,000
Number of entries added since the last release: ca. 11,000
Number of part-of-speech indications: 50,000
Number of definitions: 0
Number of proper nouns: 0
How I add entries:
$ frop add 'kerfuffle (n)'
$ cat new-words | frop add
$ frop review
** Press 'y' to add a word, 'n' to reject it, or space to skip it **
...
$ frop commit
Resources I use to discover words and decide what to add:
- Project Gutenberg
- dict
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd ed.)
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (2nd ed.)
- The Compact Oxford English Dictionary
- My poor overtaxed brain
To make a long story short: Lexicography is hard work (and FRELI's only a word list, not a dictionary).
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Moby Lexicon (Score:2)
Re: Moby Lexicon (Score:1)
My principle sources were Roget's International Thesaurus (the 1911 edition that's in the public domain) and the data files in the Link Grammar project, because these provided part-of-speech information.