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Re: Where can I find Windows' Dictionary?

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From: Colin B Maharaj
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 10:58
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If you have mozilla browser / email client installed, the email client 
has a spell check feature. Upon investigation, there is a file called 
en-US.dic in the path [myspell] and is approx 680 kbytes in size. This 
is a word list, but there are some rules that I have not figured out yet 
e.g. Some words have a forward-slash indicator to further expand on the 
words usability. e.g.

posing/CA
positifs
positionable
positional/KY
position/KGASMD
position's/EC
positions/EC

Now the word 'position' exist in the list but not 'reposition' so maybe 
the extra characters creates more permutations that would make the list 
expand into "all" possible words.

Then again you can do a goole search for 'word list' and you should get 
something.







Nick Gessler wrote:
> "Remy Lebeau \(TeamB\)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote:
> 
>>To ensure that your own dictionary is always available, 
>>you should not be relying on the resources of other
>>programs, since they may or may not be installed on the 
>>user's machine in the first place. 
> 
> 
> Yes, this is certainly good advice.  However, for teaching purposes, since all our lab machines have the same software running, I WOULD like to tap into an existing word list, such as that used by Microsoft Office.  Do you happen to know what that word list file is called or how to access it? 
> 
> Again, all I need is a list of words, not words and dictionary definitions.
> 
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