Hi,

I need to populate a dictionary table with all the words in the English
language. My first idea was to load a MSWord COM object and use the
dictionary, but I would prefer to have my own list.

Does anybody know where I can find data like this? Even if I have to ..
gulp .. pay for it.

Thanks in advance.
--
John MacIntyre
VC++ / VB / ASP / Database Developer
http://www.johnmacintyre.ca

"John MacIntyre" <Please (AT) reply (DOT) to.group.thx> wrote

That would be a much more complete list than the MS stuff. I would contact
them.
Jim

"John MacIntyre" <Please (AT) reply (DOT) to.group.thx> wrote

what you are trying to do?
Jim

"Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-downwithspammersfamily (AT) attbi (DOT) net> wrote


Hi Jim,

That is ABSOLUTELY NOT what I am trying to do. .. no offense taken though.

I'm actually trying to filter out garbage in a parsing app that I am
building.

I appreciate the previous posting, but the hacker idea is not .. I don't
think anyway .. complete enough.

Thanks again,
John MacIntyre
VC++ / VB / ASP / Database Developer
http://www.johnmacintyre.ca

"John MacIntyre" <Please (AT) reply (DOT) to.group.thx> wrote in
news:qjYYb.7255$Cd6.636337 (AT) news20 (DOT) bellglobal.com:

If you created a Word Application Object you could check eash parsed word
with

WordApplicationObject.CheckSpelling(ParsedWord).

??????????

--
Lyle
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John MacIntyre writes:

There are a lot of freely available lists on the Internet, some of them
aimed at special audiences , such as five-letter words. There are two ways
to find such lists. One way is to use "word list" as a google search
target. The other (and more fun) is to use two or so words that will only
occur together in a dictionary. Such as <ambidextrous avocado>, it's fun
making these things up and see how many hits you can make.

John MacIntyre wrote:

In Linux you can easily spell-check a file with 'aspell'.

$ aspell -c text.txt

http://freshmeat.net/projects/aspell/
Maybe there is a windows version available.

os moma
http://www.futuredesktop.org/#distrolist

"John MacIntyre" <Please (AT) reply (DOT) to.group.thx> wrote

But would it not be most perfectly ironic to have your systems
accessed by a cracker who used Access? :-)

Moby Lexicons:

Available in the public domain: Moby Words, Moby Hyphenator,
Moby Part-of-Speech, Moby Pronunciator, Moby Thesaurus, and Moby Language.
FTP: ftp://ftp.let.ruu.nl/pub/colibri/nlp...l/moby.23-1996
E-mail: mail-server (AT) let (DOT) ruu.nl " send colibri/nlp/general/moby.23-1996 "
FTP: ftp://svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/pub/comp...ionaries/moby/
WWW: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/
FTP: ftp://ai.uga.edu/pub/natural.language/moby

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Source: Gary Frank, garyfrank (AT) itol (DOT) com, via Usenet:comp.ai.nat-lang,
06 Jul 1996.

phobos2 (AT) hotmail (DOT) com (phobos) wrote:

<chuckle>

Tony
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