Does anybody know of an English dictionary with British
spelling only?

Thanks

Peter Gordon scribebat:
> Does anybody know of an English dictionary with British
> spelling only?

You can download one for aspell and ispell. At least there is one included
with AbiWord (ispell) and I have aspell installed which offers me a British
dictionary as well.
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Peter Gordon <petergo@_deleteme_.netspace.net.au> wrote:

>Does anybody know of an English dictionary with British
>spelling only?

You, and I *wish*.

*sigh*

Mike <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:(E-Mail Removed):

> Peter Gordon <petergo@_deleteme_.netspace.net.au> wrote:
>
>>Does anybody know of an English dictionary with British
>>spelling only?
>
> You, and I *wish*.
>
> *sigh*
>

Sorry, I should have been more precice. I was looking for a wordlist
of words with British spelling. I found the aspell one at:
http://www.mieliestronk.com/wordlist.html

It has 58000 plus words. It recognises colour but not color,
grey but not gray.

The list is missing some derivitives of a word.
e.g, (off the top of my head) it would contain
empty but not empties.

"Peter Gordon" <petergo@_deleteme_.netspace.net.au> wrote in message
news:Xns95E5949AF28B0petergonetspacenetau@203.10.110.105...
> Does anybody know of an English dictionary with British
> spelling only?
>
> Thanks
>

I covered this recently under the subject "Word Finder". I'll repeat the
URLS below:

Look at:

TEA (The Electronic Alveary). AFAIK this is the freeware DOS version which
runs ok on Windows, including XP. There are some other programs on this site
which are worth looking at.
http://www.bookcase.com/library/soft...util.text.html

WORDFIND
http://www.andyscouse.com/pages/wordfind_download.htm

You can also find some useful links to word lists etc at:
http://www.puzzlers.org/

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Frank Bohan
¶ Climbing up the walls burns 150 calories per hour.

He, he ... "British" English ? SOOO FUNNY !

You probably mean, "English" English ?

[British being an 'amalgam' of three countries - see International
Sports events if you doubt me]




"Peter Gordon" <petergo@_deleteme_.netspace.net.au> wrote ...
> Does anybody know of an English dictionary with British
> spelling only?
>
> Thanks

On 21 Jan 2005, Peter Gordon wrote

> Does anybody know of an English dictionary with British
> spelling only?

Do you mean a general dictionary, or a spell-check one?

In terms of general dictionaries, I don't know of one which would
include *only* BrEng spelling: that wouldn't be a valid approach to
compiling a comprehensive dictionary.

(What I mean is that Collins, for example, uses the BrEng forms to
alphabetise the head words, but includes AmEng alternatives under the
relevant entry.)

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Harvey

"Usual Suspect" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:4203967f$0$29690
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> He, he ... "British" English ? SOOO FUNNY !
>
> You probably mean, "English" English ?
>
> [British being an 'amalgam' of three countries - see International
> Sports events if you doubt me]
>

England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland = 4


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Harvey Van Sickle <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:Xns95F39FD1317CEwhhvans@194.168.222.120:

> On 21 Jan 2005, Peter Gordon wrote
>
>> Does anybody know of an English dictionary with British
>> spelling only?
>
> Do you mean a general dictionary, or a spell-check one?
>
> In terms of general dictionaries, I don't know of one which would
> include *only* BrEng spelling: that wouldn't be a valid approach to
> compiling a comprehensive dictionary.
>
> (What I mean is that Collins, for example, uses the BrEng forms to
> alphabetise the head words, but includes AmEng alternatives under the
> relevant entry.)
>

I wanted a word list of British only, not American spelt words. I
found one at http://www.mieliestronk.com/wordlist.html

Thanks.

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, abuse@
[127.0.0.1] says...
> > [British being an 'amalgam' of three countries - see International
> > Sports events if you doubt me]
> >
>
> England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland = 4

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland = 4 = United Kingdom.

England, Scotland and Wales = 3 = Britain.

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