Re: 'box' missing from web2?

[John Cowan]

address@hidden scripsit:

> 1. wonder why is there more than one free wordlist (mine came from
> SCOWL - wordlist.sourceforge.net), since this seems like an area where
> combining effort should be easy

Yes and no.  It's easy to create One Big Wordlist, but many wordlists are
riddled with typos, or contain words that you are better off not having.
For example, "suer" meaning "one who sues" is a legitimate word, but it's
*much* more likely to be a typo for "user".  (It's in the OED marked
"obsolete", but because adding "-er" is productive in English, someone
may re-create it at any time.)

That said, it would be a Good Thing to have only one source of wordlists,
and de facto that is KevinAtkinson's at http://wordlist.sourceforge.net .

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John Cowan    address@hidden    http://ccil.org/~cowan
This great college [Trinity], of this ancient university [Cambridge],
has seen some strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk and Porson
sober. And here am I, a better poet than Porson, and a better scholar
than Wordsworth, somewhere betwixt and between.  --A.E. Housman