Public Brand Software README

Dallas, TX

6-Sep-91

This is a list of over 100,000 English words transcribed orthographically. I obtained it from The Interociter bulletin board in Dallas (214/258-1832). The original read.me file said that the list came from Public Brand Software.

The original list contained 146,440 words, but I discovered that there were thousands of duplicate words. I resorted the list and removed the duplicates using the Unix utility uniq. The total number of words is now 109,582. I have repackaged the list into four files (the original was five):

     File         Bytes    Words   Range
     ---------    ------   -----   -----
     words1.lst   315376   29839   A-D
     words2.lst   242484   23101   E-K
     words3.lst   325716   30439   L-R
     words4.lst   270759   26203   S-Z
                  ----------------
     Total       1154335  109582

This word list includes inflected forms, such as plural nouns and the -s, -ed and -ing forms of verbs. Thus the number of lexical stems represented in the list is considerably smaller than the total number of words.

Evan Antworth
Academic Computing Department
Summer Institute of Linguistics
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road
Dallas, TX 75236
U.S.A.

Internet: evan@sil.org
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phone: 214/709-2418
fax: 214/709-3387