    GNU Aspell 0.60 English Dictionary Package
    Version 2019.10.06-0
    2019-10-06
    Original Word List By:
      Kevin Atkinson <kevina at gnu org>
    Copyright Terms: Copyrighted (see the file Copyright for the exact terms)
    Wordlist URL: http://wordlist.aspell.net/
    Source Version: 2019.10.06
    This word list is considered both complete and accurate.

    This is the English dictionary for Aspell.  It requires Aspell
    version 0.60 or better.

    If Aspell is installed and aspell and prezip-bin are all
    in the path first do a:

      ./configure

    Which should output something like:

      Finding Dictionary file location ... /usr/local/lib/aspell
      Finding Data file location ... /usr/local/share/aspell

    if it did not something likely went wrong.

    After that build the package with:
      make
    and then install it with
      make install

    If any of the above mentioned programs are not in your path than the
    variables, ASPELL and/or PREZIP need to be set to the
    commands (with path) to run the utilities.  These variables may be set
    in the environment before configure is run or specified at the command
    line using the following syntax
      ./configure --vars VAR1=VAL1 ...
    Other useful variables configure recognizes are ASPELL_PARMS, and DESTDIR.

    To clean up after the build:
      make clean

    To uninstall the files:
      make uninstall

    After the dictionaries are installed you can use the main one (en) by
    setting the LANG environmental variable to en or running Aspell
    with "--lang=en".  You may also chose the dictionary directly
    with the "-d" or "--master" option of Aspell.  You can chose from any of
    the following dictionaries:
      en-variant_0 (american-variant_0 en_US-variant_0 english-variant_0)
      en-variant_1 (american-variant_1 en_US-variant_1 english-variant_1)
      en-variant_2 (english-variant_2)
      en-w_accents (english-w_accents)
      en-wo_accents (en english english-wo_accents)
      en_AU-variant_0 (australian-variant_0)
      en_AU-variant_1 (australian-variant_1)
      en_AU-w_accents (australian-w_accents)
      en_AU-wo_accents (australian australian-wo_accents en_AU)
      en_CA-variant_0 (canadian-variant_0)
      en_CA-variant_1 (canadian-variant_1)
      en_CA-w_accents (canadian-w_accents)
      en_CA-wo_accents (canadian canadian-wo_accents en_CA)
      en_GB-ise-w_accents (british-ise-w_accents british-w_accents
                           en_GB-w_accents)
      en_GB-ise-wo_accents (british british-ise british-ise-wo_accents
                            british-wo_accents en_GB en_GB-ise
                            en_GB-wo_accents)
      en_GB-ize-w_accents (british-ize-w_accents)
      en_GB-ize-wo_accents (british-ize british-ize-wo_accents en_GB-ize)
      en_GB-variant_0 (british-variant_0)
      en_GB-variant_1 (british-variant_1)
      en_US-w_accents (american-w_accents)
      en_US-wo_accents (american american-wo_accents en_US)
    Whereas the names in parentheses are alternate names for the
    dictionary preceding the parentheses.

    The individual word lists have an extension of ".cwl" and are
    compressed to save space.  To uncompress a word list use
    "preunzip BASE.cwl" which will uncompress it and rename the file
    to "BASE.wl".  To dump a compressed word list to standard output use
    "precat BASE.cwl".  To uncompress all word lists in the current
    directory use "preunzip *.cwl".  For more help on "preunzip" use
    "preunzip --help".

    If you have any problem with installing or using the word lists please
    let the Aspell maintainer, Kevin Atkinson, know at kevina@gnu.org.

    If you have problems with the actual word lists please contact one of
    the Word lists authors as the Aspell maintainer does not maintain the
    actual Word Lists.

    Any additional documentation that came with the original word list can
    be found in the doc/ directory.

    INFORMATION ON THE PROVIDED DICTIONARIES

    This word list package supports the following dialects of English:

      American (en_US)
      British with "ise" spelling (en_GB-ise)
      British with "ize" spelling (en_GB-ize)
      Canadian (en_CA)

    In addition generic English (en) is supported which is a combination
    of all the above.

    For each dialect there is the option to either strip accents (for
    example cafe) or keep them (for example café).  The default is to
    strip them.

    Combining these two options gives the following dictionaries.

      en_US-wo_accents
      en_US-w_accents
      en_GB-ise-wo_accents
      en_GB-ise-w_accents
      en_GB-ize-wo_accents
      en_GB-ize-w_accents
      en_CA-wo_accents
      en_CA-w_accents
      en-wo_accents
      en-w_accents

    in addition to the following aliases:

      en_US = en_US-wo_accents
      en_GB = en_GB-ise-wo_accents
      en_GB-ise = en_GB-ise-wo_accents
      en_GB-ize = en_GB-ize-wo_accents
      en_GB-wo_accents = en_GB-ise-wo_accents
      en_GB-w_accents = en_GB-ize-w_accents
      en_CA = en_CA-wo_accents
      en = en-wo_accents

      american-* = en_US-*
      britsh-* = en_GB-*
      canadian-* = en_CA-*
      english-* = en-*

    If you are using Aspell 0.60 these aliases can be changed locally via
    "dict-alias" option.  For example if you prefer the "ize" spelling for
    British English add the line:

      add-dict-alias en_GB en_GB-ize

    to ".aspell.conf".

    Great care has been taken so that that, for the most part, only one
    spelling for any particular word is included in the main dictionary.
    When two variants were considered equal I randomly picked one for
    inclusion in the main word list.  Unfortunately this means that my
    choice in how to spell a word may not match your choice.  For this
    reason the following auxiliary dictionaries are provided:

      en_US-variant_0
      en_US-variant_1
      en_GB-variant_0
      en_GB-variant_1
      en_CA-variant_0
      en_CA-variant_1
      en-variant_2

    These dictionaries are meant to be used in addition to one of the
    standard dictionaries. To specify them use the "extra-dicts" option.
    The "en_*-variant_0" dictionaries includes most variants which are
    considered almost equal, "variant_1" includes variants which are
    generally considered acceptable, and "variant_2" contains variants
    which are seldom used and may not even be considered correct.  It is
    only necessary to use on of these dictionaries since, for example,
    "en_US-variant_1" includes all the words in "en_US-variant_0".

    UPGRADING FROM ASPELL6-EN-0.01

    If you are upgrading from the aspell6-en-0.01 package you should do a

      rm `aspell config dict-dir`/en[-_]*.alias

    to remove any old alias.  Otherwise aspell may get confused as this
    version installs the alias with the ".multi" extension instead of
    the ".alias" extension.