Re: [tdf-discuss] European Commitee enter talks with MS licences, Please make your action today against it.

On 04/22/2011 05:33 PM, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Jon Hamkins<hamkins@alumni.caltech.edu>  wrote:
> > On 04/06/2011 04:54 AM, toki wrote:
> >
> > > There are roughly one billion words in the English language. You could
> > > have a LibO spell checker that contains each of those words.
> >
> > Actually, there are only about one million English words in English, and
> > that's including the 500,000 or so scientific words.
> >
> > http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/JohnnyLing.shtml
>
> Note that a spell checker doesn't just need to list the words, but
> needs to know all forms of the words (plural form, genitive form,
> different times,....)

Well, the spell checker just needs a list of words -- grammar is 
something else.  OED2 contained 290,000 entries with a total of 690,000 
word forms.  OED3 has somewhat more; a solid word list in an office 
suite should have somewhat fewer.  You don't want to include obsolete 
words that have a close but different spelling from common words, for 
example.

     ----Jon

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