# DICTIONARY MAINTENANCE

Unless otherwise stated, changelog entries dated from 25 August 2013 onwards
were prepared by Marco A.G.Pinto.

Maintenance history:
  • en_GB has been maintained by Marco A.G.Pinto since 25 August 2013.
  • en_ZA has been maintained by Marco A.G.Pinto since 1 January 2025.
  • en_GB-oxendict has been maintained by Marco A.G.Pinto since 1 March 2025.
  • Alternative en_US, en_CA, and en_AU dictionaries have been maintained by
    Marco A.G.Pinto since 1 January 2026.
  • Before 1 January 2026, the en_US, en_CA, and en_AU dictionaries included
    in this extension were primarily based on versions maintained by Kevin
    Atkinson and other earlier contributors.

Earlier changelog entries retain their original contributor names and wording
where this is relevant to the history of the dictionaries.

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# MAGP 2026-09-01
Cleaned up the log file.

Removed additional Britishisms from the US dictionary.

Corrected the handling of “improvise” and “improvize”;
“improvize” is not a valid spelling.

Enhanced flags, mainly for US English words.

Added flag “á” for adjectival forms ending in “-like”.

Added flag “é” for irregular plural forms.

Improved the hyphenation dictionaries.

Rewrote and expanded most of the README file.



# MAGP 2026-07-01
Major updates to the Canadian and US dictionaries.

Removed Americanisms from the GB dictionary.

Removed Britishisms from the US dictionary.

Added MAXNGRAMSUGS 7 to keep spelling suggestions more focused and reduce noise.

Switched to FLAG UTF-8 after running out of flags.

Added flag “í” for American English -ist, -ist's and -ists forms (single-L words).

Added ' to WORDCHARS to recognise words such as 'gainst.

Added REP entry: "teh" → "the".

Added possessive forms for most -ness nouns.

Added numerous derived forms, including plurals and possessives.



# MAGP 2026-05-01
Flag enhancements, mainly for U.S. words.



# MAGP 2026-03-07
Critical update: An issue in the US dictionary was caused by my tool automatically
removing prefixes from lemmas in the removal list — a feature that seemed helpful
but proved problematic.



# MAGP 2026-03-01
Flag enhancements, mainly for U.S. words.

Major fixes and improvements to the US dictionary.



# MAGP 2026-02-01
Flag enhancements, mainly for U.S. words.

Major fixes and improvements to the US, CA, and AU dictionaries.

Added an OED (Oxford English Dictionary) dictionary to the LibreOffice extension.



# MAGP 2026-01-01
Marco began maintaining alternative versions of the US, CA, and AU dictionaries.

Merged the GB dictionary into the ZA dictionary.

Aligned all five dictionaries to the GB versioning format for consistency.

Removed numerous Americanisms from the GB dictionary.

The hyph US and GB files now use UTF-8-BOM Unix (LF).

The thesaurus now uses UTF-8-BOM Unix (LF).

Improved image for extension.

Updated all five English dictionaries.


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# MAGP 2025-09-01
Better -ise/-ize handling.

Updated the GB and ZA dictionaries.



# MAGP 2025-07-01
Better -ise/-ize handling.

Updated the GB and ZA dictionaries.



# MAGP 2025-04-01
Better -ise/-ize handling.

Updated the GB and ZA dictionaries.



# MAGP 2025-03-01
New icon for the extension in 128×128 pixels.

Unified the ZA flags with GB (~2800 new words including fixes in some).

Taken from ZA to GB: #PHONEtic transformation rules for use with #PHONEtic.c.

Updated the GB and ZA dictionaries.



# MAGP 2025-01-01
Updated the GB and ZA dictionaries.


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# MAGP 2024-11-01
Updated the GB and ZA dictionaries.



# MAGP 2024-08-01
Updated the GB and ZA dictionaries.

Simplified the release notes.



# MAGP 2024-07-01
Updated the GB and ZA dictionaries.



# MAGP 2024-06-01
Updated the GB and ZA dictionaries.



# MAGP 2024-05-01
Updated the GB and ZA dictionaries.
ZA:
  - Improved flag “S” adding 9 words (possessives)
  - Improved flag “N” adding 1114 words (possessives)



# MAGP 2024-04-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2024-03-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2024-02-01
Updated the GB, ZA, US, CA and AU dictionaries.
US + CA + AU:
  - Fix: apostrophe handling, by adding: WORDCHARS 0123456789’ to the .aff

ZA:
  - Fix: Removed the: ICONV ’ ' because it was already at the end of the .aff
    Fix: apostrophe handling, by adding: WORDCHARS 0123456789’ to the .aff
    Improved flag J adding 424 words.



# MAGP 2024-01-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.


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# MAGP 2023-12-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2023-11-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2023-10-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2023-09-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2023-08-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2023-07-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2023-06-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2023-05-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2023-04-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2023-03-01
Updated the GB and ZA dictionaries.
GB:
  - Flag J was improved and it added 490 entries (possessives).
  - Removed tons of possessives in plurals ending with "s".



# MAGP 2023-02-01
Updated the GB and ZA dictionaries.
ZA:
  - Added: Czechia + Czechia's
  - Fixed/improved: flag 3



# MAGP 2023-01-01
Updated the GB and ZA dictionaries.
ZA:
  - Added the: ICONV ’ '
  - Sorted alphabetically the tags of the .aff


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# MAGP 2022-12-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2022-11-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2022-10-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2022-09-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2022-08-01
Updated the GB and ZA dictionaries.
ZA:
  - Fixed the flag ! at start of words
  - Removed duplicate words
  - Sorted alphabetically the dictionary



# MAGP 2022-07-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2022-06-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2022-05-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2022-04-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2022-03-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2022-02-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2022-01-01
The description is now the LibreOffice one and added variants for the most important locales.

There are now OpenOffice and LibreOffice specific extensions to enable triggering autoupdate on both offices.

Updated the GB Dictionary.


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# MAGP 2021-12-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2021-11-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2021-10-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2021-09-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2021-08-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2021-07-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2021-06-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2021-05-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2021-04-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2021-03-01
Updated the GB and ZA dictionaries.
- ZA (small fix: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140102)



# MAGP 2021-02-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2021-01-01
Updated the GB, US, CA and AU dictionaries.


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# MAGP 2020-12-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2020-11-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2020-10-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2020-08-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2020-07-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2020-06-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2020-05-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2020-04-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.
GB:
  - Added tons of plurals and possessives.
  - Added tons of COVID-19 related terms.
  - Removed hundreds of duplicates.



# MAGP 2020-03-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2020-02-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2020-01-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.


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# MAGP 2019-11-01
Updated the GB, US, CA and AU dictionaries.
GB:
  - Tons of duplicates were removed and cleaned/simplified the .dic.
  - There were also tons of plurals/possessives added (WIP).



# MAGP 2019-09-01
Converted some line endings in this file from Windows to Unix.

Updated the GB Dictionary.
GB:
  - Tons of duplicates were removed and cleaned/simplified the .dic.
  - There were also tons of plurals/possessives added (WIP).



# MAGP 2019-07-01
Improved the description of the Extension

Updated the GB Dictionary.
GB:
  - Tons of duplicates were removed and cleaned/simplified the .dic.
  - There were also tons of plurals/possessives added (WIP).



# MAGP 2019-05-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2019-03-01
Added the LGPL_V3 License .txt into the Extension.

Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2019-01-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.


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# MAGP 2018-11-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2018-09-01
Improved the logo quality since Pedro Marques sent me the original model resizable in all sizes.

Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2018-07-01
Updated the GB, US, CA and AU dictionaries.



# MAGP 2018-05-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2018-03-01
Simplified the Extension description.

Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2018-01-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.
GB:
  - In November + December, I added THOUSANDS of possessives to proper names.
  - Added 500+ proper names.


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# MAGP 2017-11-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2017-09-01
Updated the GB, US, CA and AU dictionaries.



# MAGP 2017-07-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2017-05-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2017-03-01
Updated the GB, US, CA and AU dictionaries.



# MAGP 2017-01-01
Updated the GB, US, CA and AU dictionaries.


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# MAGP 2016-11-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2016-09-01
Updated the GB, US, and CA dictionaries.
GB:
  -  GB changelog is no longer included in the README file, instead there are links
     inside it pointing to the information (lower filesize).



# MAGP 2016-07-01
Updated the hyphenation patterns to 2011-10-07 (from LibreOffice): US + GB

Updated the GB Dictionary.
GB:
  - It now uses NOSUGGEST flag for offensive words.
  - It now uses COMPOUNDING (Áron Budea).



# MAGP 2016-05-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2016-04-01
Updated the Dictionaries:
- Australian (2016-03-14): Australian had all UTF-8 corrupt words fixed by Marco
- GB
- South African (Dwayne Bailey) (2012-07-10)



# MAGP 2016-03-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.

Converted the US Thesaurus into UTF-8 and removed 752 duplicated meanings.



# MAGP 2016-02-01
Updated the GB, US, and CA dictionaries.



# MAGP 2016-01-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.


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# MAGP 2015-12-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2015-11-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2015-10-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2015-09-01
Updated the GB, US, and CA dictionaries.



# MAGP 2015-08-01
It is now compatible with the latest version of LibreOffice.

Improved the description text.

Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2015-07-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2015-06-01
Updated the GB, US, and CA dictionaries.



# MAGP 2015-05-01
Updated the GB, US, and CA dictionaries.



# MAGP 2015-04-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2015-03-01
Updated the GB, US, and CA dictionaries.



# MAGP 2015-02-01
Updated the GB, US, and CA dictionaries.



# MAGP 2015-01-01
Updated the GB, US, and CA dictionaries.


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# MAGP 2014-12-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2014-11-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2014-10-01
Updated the GB Dictionary.



# MAGP 2014-09-01
Updated the GB, US and CA dictionaries.



# MAGP 2014-07-01
Changed the publisher name in description.xml to "Marco A.G.Pinto" since
Ariel Constenla-Haile and Andrea Pescetti from Apache told me that the one being
used, "Apache OpenOffice", had a license incompatibility.

Updated the GB dictionary.



# MAGP 2014-06-01
Fixed the Extension URL in the description, since the old URL was temporary.

Updated the GB, US and CA dictionaries.



# MAGP 2014-02-10
The extension, in the Extension Manager, now has an icon, a name with a link and a description.

Updated the GB dictionary.



# MAGP 2014-01-07
Updated the GB Dictionary.

Regarding the 2006 version, this one has over 800 new unique words plus the derived ones
Please note that Marco's forked version was based on the non-obfuscated Mozilla version.


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# AP 31/7/2013
Modify dictionaries.xcu for better hyphenation, see:
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119087



# DNW 20/11/2008
Removed un-Australian -ize variants of words from the list.



# DNW 27/9/2008
A short list of Australian slang terms was added.

Added same new words like 'cellphone' from various online new word lists.



# DNW 25/9/2008
Version packaged as English Australian Dictionary Extension version 1 for OpenOffice version 3.


-- Notes for 2.1.1 --
Made some modifications as this dictionary is specifically aimed at Mozilla products and online users.

My modifications:
blog/RDGMS
Bugzilla/M
caffeinate/D
Camino/M
ChatZilla/M
eBay/M
Firefox/M
Flock/M
-gauge/DaGS
gauge/aBDGMS
Google/M
google/SGD
HTML/M
https
inline/D
-install/7NRn
install/7NRnSUGMB
-Internet/M
internet/M
JavaScript/M
Mozilla/M
phish/RG
-plug-in
plug-in/SM
plugin/SM
podcast/MSRG
PowerPoint/M
screenshot/S
SeaMonkey/M
Songbird/M
-spam/DG
spam/DGM
-spammer
spammer/MRS
subdomain/SM
Sunbird/M
Thunderbird/M
toolbar/S
unsubscribe/D
webmaster/MS
webmistress/MS
XULRunner/M


-- Notes for 2.1 -- (Not released)
Based on en_AU_V2.1.zip from http://www.justlocal.com.au

- Removed words with spaces
- Removed trailing spaces from words
- Change accented characters in words where this was valid according to the
  Macquarie English dictionary
- Removed U.S. spellings of the words with ize so only ise and variants remain
- Fixed error in affix file on line 1068 from SFZ to SFX


-- Notes for 0.2 -- 2006-08-03
Gah! A typo in the extension name? New version pronto!


-- Notes for 0.1 -- 2006-08-03
I, Cameron, downloaded the en-AU dictionary file from http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/spell_dic.html to package it correctly for use in Mozilla applications and distribution through addons.mozilla.org. It was last modified on 2003-03-29. I received no reply after emailing the author, and such have decided to make my own fork (is it still a fork if the previous one isn't maintained?) for Mozilla :) I have also decided to change the license to the GNU General Public License - as per section 3 of the LGPL. 

The en_AU dictionary is credited to Kelvin Eldridge (previous maintainer) <audictionary@onlineconnections.com.au>, Jean Hollis Weber and David Wilson (originally licensed under the LGPL.)

Their changes:
- Words incorrect in Australian English removed
- a list from the previously removed words with corrected spelling was added
- a list of major rivers was added
- a list of place names was added
- a list of Australian mammals was added
- a list of Aboriginal/Koori words commonly used was added

This dictionary was based on the en_GB dictionary, edited by David Bartlett, Brian Kelk and Andrew Brown – (originally licensed under the LGPL.)

Which was in turn initially based on a subset of the original English wordlist created by Kevin Atkinson for Pspell and Aspell – (originally licensed under the LGPL.)

Original affix file created completely from scratch by David Bartlett and Andrew Brown, based on the published rules for MySpell – (originally licensed under the LGPL.)
