Angla vortaro - that's English dictionary to you and me
A quick check against public domain material downloaded previously turned up The The Online Plain Text English Dictionary (OPTED) produced by Ralph S. Sutherland from the Project Gutenberg version of the 1913 edition of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary with a additional vocabulary supplement.
(This dictionary is no longer available at the original Australian National University site. So I guess Ralph has moved on. Good thing a copy was already to hand.)
OPTED came in a very simple and completely regular html format and was easy to process automatically and upload.
So wirdz now has its very own English Dictionary. (Having Esperanto but not English was just a bit too absurda.)
Despite the supplement, the dictionary is still relatively lacking in recent (i.e. post 1911) vocabularly). The GNU CIDE dictionary which combines the PD Webster's Dictionaryand WordNet seems rather better. This is also to hand but in a relatively complex marked up format. In due course ... or for estonta.
(This dictionary is no longer available at the original Australian National University site. So I guess Ralph has moved on. Good thing a copy was already to hand.)
OPTED came in a very simple and completely regular html format and was easy to process automatically and upload.
So wirdz now has its very own English Dictionary. (Having Esperanto but not English was just a bit too absurda.)
Despite the supplement, the dictionary is still relatively lacking in recent (i.e. post 1911) vocabularly). The GNU CIDE dictionary which combines the PD Webster's Dictionaryand WordNet seems rather better. This is also to hand but in a relatively complex marked up format. In due course ... or for estonta.
posted by Aardvark at 9:16 AM
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