Standardize Speller Dictionaries, please!!

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From: Peter Gergely
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1987 18:10

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	Owning Ready-Set-Go! 3, Word 3.0.1, and Spellswell 2.0, I
really wish there was a standard format for spelling dictionaries.  It
becomes very annoying after little use to put the changes in all 3
separate dictionaries, plus the amount of disk space that they take up
could be used for more productive purposes.  I hope that some of the
software developpers read this message and take it to heart to try to
standardize the spelling dictionaries with others.
	As an aside, it also would be very nice if a British Spelling
Dictionary could be included with the spelling correctors.  Microsoft
is the only one to have such with Word 3.  In Canada, the standard is
to use the British spelling of words.  Thus, this is one of the main
set of changes that I have to do to all the other dictionaries I own.
-- 
Peter J. Gergely (DREA, P.O. Box 1012, Dartmouth, NS  B2Y 3Z7  Canada)
      ARPANET:  gergely@DREA-XX.ARPA (preferred) or Peter@DREA-GRIFFIN.ARPA
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Subject: Standardize Speller Dictionaries, please!!
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Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 14:10:12 EDT
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