Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk!gtoal
From: gtoal@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Public Domain Dictionary
Message-ID: <9106010103.AA26058@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 31 May 91 21:11:14 GMT
References: <1991May29.235751.1362@imagen.com>
Sender: rwh@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: Unix Anarchy, Edinburgh University.
Lines: 15

In article <1991May29.235751.1362@imagen.com> ram@lynx.Berkeley.EDU (m.v.s. ramanath) writes:
>There seems to be a serious need for a public domain dictionary.

Not many people know this... but...

there already is one -- on uk's UUG archive at uk.ac.ic.doc - but I
don't know how people on internet can get at it.  I think it's about
5Mb - it's called DICT.Z (rather unoriginally :) ) and I've no idea
of its provenance, except that it is clearly American.  It includes
a phonetic representation of most of the words in it too, for those
of you interested in that sort of thing.

Maybe someone at ic.doc could say where it came from?

Graham