[libreoffice-users] "English" dictionary extension

With all the "issues" about my version of a British word list 
dictionary, I decided to get out of my sick bed and do something that 
would make the same people more angry at me.

If you do not want to use my spelling word dictionaries, you do not need 
to. Use someone else's.  I just thought I could help LO in my own little 
way.  If all people who want to help is made to feel like I have over my 
work on my versions of a spelling extension, then I would wonder why 
people would want to help make LO better. So, for those who do not like 
my work, do not use it.

NOW - what I did. . . .

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http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/add-on-dictionaries-large-list/kpp-english-dictionary-790k-word-list.oxt

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I took all three 638K word lists - American, British, and Canadian - and 
compared them.  As far as I could tell, there were less than 100 words 
that were not in at least two out of the three lists.  I could be wrong, 
but that is what I came up with.

Then I added lists of medical and chemical words to the large word list 
to make it a total of 790,673 words.  I planned to add the medical and 
chemical words at a later date, but I did so now instead.  I still have 
more words to add, but I will have to wait to rebuild that list of new 
words [since I deleted my work when I was sick last year and was 
switching drives for storage of these working files].

I will not tell you where I got these words from, but as far as I will 
tell you ALL of the words came from "GNU - General Public License" 
sources or equivalent.

If you choose to search for word lists you will find the ones I have 
found and merged to create the "master" word lists I use for the 
creation three versions of the English Language spelling dictionaries.  
Everything I did can be done by anyone who would want to do so.

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AS for spellings that are not matching everyone's preferred spelling, 
that is easy . . . .


Languages Evolve and even in the same country people can spell a word 
differently and still be correct.


If you go to

http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/spanish-dictionaries

and look, you will find Spanish dictionaries for various regions.  You 
want to argue with them that they are not spelling their words 
correctly?  No, the spellings of words evolve and can be used in each 
variation.  Do I tell people that "colour" or "menue" are not the 
correct spellings of these words, since they are not the spellings I 
use?  They should be "color" and "menu" according to my email client, 
BUT both ways are spelled correctly if you look at resource that does 
not say this is the preferred spelling so any other correct spellings 
are not to be used anymore.  The people in my building who saw "menue" 
spelled this way could not tell me that is was not correct, when it is 
not the "most preferred" spelling method.

Look at the French.  As far as I was told, they have revised their 
spellings of some words and now teach this new spelling method in their 
schools.  But, the old ways are still going to be out there in books and 
other printed documents.  Look at what Oxford English is vs. British 
English.  "They" are changing the way you spell many common words [my 
opinion for common words and spelling] but if the public do not want to 
use the newest version of the words, then who will force them?  If the 
public think it is not a good idea to use the newest ways to spell the 
words, then is the public wrong or the people who thought up the new 
ways of spelling of the words?  Look into the past of the "English" 
language.  It has not been around for 2000 years, 1000 years, or even 
500.  The "English" language grew out of communities coming in contact 
with each other and sharing their words.  These groups of larger 
communities share with others and slowly a new language grows out of the 
older ones.  ALSO smaller communities form and over time the words they 
use, and their spelling of those words, will change.  As far as my 
English professors understands, this will always happen.  Language Evolves.

How many "English" words actually came from words in the French and 
German regions of Europe?   Language shares words and the use can become 
part of their "communal" language.

You can tell me I am wrong, and I can say that you are.  We are both 
neither right or wrong.  The lady who was born and raised 200 miles 
south of me who spells "menue/menu" her way is not wrong, but she grew 
up in a different sub-community in the USA than I did.  There were more 
of one ethnic group that moved into her region of the country than did 
in mine.  My father was raised on a different region than my mother.  We 
all were taught how to speak in areas of different ethnic diversity.  
Our words we used were different for some common things, AND so was some 
of the ways that those words were spelled.  The language evolved in 
these communities and as each community member moved to other 
communities, the words [and spelling] spread to other communities, 
through their use and their children's use.

<http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/add-on-dictionaries-large-list/kpp-english-dictionary-790k-word-list.oxt>Language 
evolves.

NO one sub-group can force another to use the new ways.  If they are not 
used by enough people, then those new ways are given up.

The same goes with spelling of the words you use.  Over the past 200 
many ways of spelling words have changed and were used by enough people 
that those ways became preferred over the older ways, but those older 
ways are rarely, if ever, removed from the written language.  They are 
just not used as much as they once were.


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