ENGLISH DICTIONARY
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Submitted by:	Chris Doran				Date: September 1988
		Sira Ltd., South Hill, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 5EH, England.
		Tel: +44 1 467 2636,	Telex: 896649,	  FAX: +44 1 467 6515

This is an English English * dictionary, filed by initial letters. I'm sorry I
can't supply a spelling checker to go with this; the one I have isn't mine to
give away, and in any case is too slow with the 100000 words you have here.

The dictionary was built up by combining all the dictionaries I could find on
various SIG tapes, and then checking every word against the Oxford English
Dictionary, changing American spellings in the process. It contains a lot of
technical terms, plus common Christian names, famous surnames, and countries
and large towns, since they're all in the OED.

ABBREV.DIC contains common abbreviations and certain surnames (like mine,
as I have no famous relatives or ancestors) which are local to Sira, and should
be edited for individual site usage.

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* "English English" is defined (according to the DECmate manuals, anyway) as
using -ise endings rather than -ize (which is "British English").