Comprehensive Word List

• Description: A comprehensive word list which should contain most common American words, abbreviations, hyphenations, and even incorrect spellings. The word lists were compiled from a number of sources: commercial news services, UseNet news postings, existing dictionaries, name lists, company lists, UNIX man pages, project Gutenberg's E-texts, project Wordnet, received mailings, etc. The current size is 460,000 words.
• Availability: anonymous ftp ftp://wocket.vantage.gte.com/pub/standard_dictionary
  Note 1: There seems to be some sort of network problem reaching the server.
  Note 2: There is a README file which explains the file formats.

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