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In this package are five dictionaries of English usage - Australian,
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Canadian, United States, and two forms of British English.
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2022-04-20 00:17:35 +02:00
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The reason the previous maintainer, Donald Cooley <chytraeu@sdf.org>,
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included two forms of British English dictionaries are:
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1. The -ise suffix is more commonly used by British speakers and all
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other forms such as en_DK, en_IE, en_IN, etc are symbolic links to
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en_GB-ise.
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2. the en_GB-ize/en_GB-oxendict which uses the -ize suffix is known
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as Oxford English Dictionary Spelling and is generally favored for
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academic, formal, and technical writing.
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