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I would like to build a UK (or Australian) spelling dictionary for use
with WriteNow.
 
I have the 'Empty Dictionary' file, but want to avoid typing tens of
thousands of words - especially when the vast majority of spellings are
the same as the ones in the US dictionary.  I also have Word 3.02 and
its UK Dictionary.
 
What I would like to do is either get the words from Words' dictionary
into WriteNow (but the supplied dictionary is encoded or compressed in
some way I haven't tried to figure out), or use Words' UK dictionary to
find the 'mis-spellings' in a standard US dictionary.  To do the latter
I need to have a US dictionary in text (i.e. uncompressed) form.  Then
I just boot up Word, correct the spellings in the text file to UK
forms, and import the corrected file into WriteNow's empty dictionary.
Simple, if somebody can provide the input!
 
(Needless to say, TMaker tell me they have no UK dictionary.)
 
So does anybody in NetLand have:
o a UK dictionary for WriteNow;  or
o a text version of a US dictionary;  or
o the magic spell to convert either a WriteNow or a Word (the standard
ones, not the user ones which are easy to convert) dictionary into text
form?
 
Any help, pointers etc would be most appreciated.
 
 
Rob Trevor
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