Developing an en_US Dictionary - 2014-01-23

["Marco A.G.Pinto" <ma...@mail.telepac.pt>]

Hello!

I am the person working on the en_GB (English British) dictionary.

Rob contacted me the other day to ask if I also maintained the en_US 
dictionary (English American).

Unfortunately, that dictionary is obfuscated and the solution would be 
to use the one from Mozilla, just like I did for en_GB, and it would be 
a huge task since I have already found over 1000 unique words 
missing/typos/etc. (for en_GB).

And I am not sure if the en_US has an explanation .AFF file describing 
all codes.
Official site of en_GB:
http://en-gb.pyxidium.co.uk
Just look there for the .AFF description.

What I would suggest is that someone grabs the en_US from Mozilla and 
pastes the contents of my .RTF in Thunderbird or OpenOffice to see what 
words aren't there (they will appear as typos).

I have developed a tool for the task (Proofing Tool GUI):
http://marcoagpinto.cidadevirtual.pt/proofingtoolgui.html

My current list of added/removed/fixed words (in Rich Text Format) 
(Remember it is for en_GB):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30674540/en_UK_speller_for_Mozilla%2BAOO%2BLO_2013%2B.rtf

Please bear in mind that some words are slightly different in the US 
such as words that have one L instead of two.

If someone takes on the project I will merge the dictionary into the big 
OXT after talking with Andrea for the details.

Thanks!

Kind regards,
       >Marco A.G.Pinto
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