lamy@utai.UUCP (Jean-Francois Lamy) (02/05/86)
This showed up in newsgroup can.general. I have edited the header so that follow-ups get to this group and that replies go to the original poster. In article <165@uvicctr.UUCP> gduncan@uvicctr.UUCP (Gary Duncan) writes: >Before I put a lot of work into it, has anyone out there created a >comprehensive Canadian English spelling list? >This is for BSD4.2 on a VAX, but I'm sure it applies everywhere. > >I have created an initial 'canadian' variation list by simply going >through the 'american' and 'british' variation lists in >/usr/src/usr.bin/spell/ and taking the preferred spelling as given by >the "Compact Dictionary of Canadian English", Holt, Rinehart and >Winston (1976). > >In many cases both the American and British spellings are recognized, >although one is usually preferred over the other. My dictionary >distinguishes between the common and uncommon variations. (eg. 'labor' >is a common variation of 'labour', while 'barytone' is an uncommon >variation on 'baritone'). My current plan is just to have the >preferred spellings, although some may wish to have the common >variation as well. In may cases the variation is already in the >standard list (/usr/dict/words). To counteract this either this list >needs to be redone, or another stop list created. Perhaps we need both >preferred and recognized Canadian versions? > >FYI: my simple Canadian variation list is about 36% American and 64% >British, preferring the British ...ll..., ...our, ...re, ...yse, and >...nce over the American ...l..., ...or, ...er, ...yze, and ...nse (eg. >travelled, colour, centre, analyse, and defence), but the American >...ize and ...gram over the British ..ise and ...gramme (eg. recognize >and program). There are of course exceptions to the above rules (eg. >paralleled, amorous, license). > >-- Gary Duncan, Dept of CS, U of Victoria > >uucp: {ubc-vision,uw-beaver}!uvicctr!vax-populi!gduncan >EAN: gduncan@vax-populi.UVic.CDN >~arpa: vax-populi!gduncan@nrl-css.arpa -- Jean-Francois Lamy Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle, U. de Montreal. CSNet: lamy@toronto.csnet UUCP: {utzoo,ihnp4,decwrl,uw-beaver}!utcsri!utai!lamy CDN: lamy@iro.udem.cdn (lamy%iro.udem.cdn@ubc.csnet)