Subject: FAQ rec.puzzles.crosswords part 1/3
Date: 5 MAR 95 19:04:17
Summary: This Posting Contains a List of Frequently Asked Questions about Crosswords
Organisation: Digital Equipment Corporation


Version: 4.11

        Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for rec.puzzles.crosswords
                               Version 4.11

                          Compiled and edited by
               James A. Lundon (jlundon@xstacy.enet.dec.com)

   This file contains the answers to many questions which people, from time
   to time, have asked in the newsgroup, and it will act as a convenient
   store of knowledge which the participants may find useful, or even 
   interesting.

   The FAQ will be posted irregularly since the information contained 
   therein changes infrequently.

   This FAQ is accessible via anonymous FTP at rtfm.mit.edu in the
   directory /pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/rec/puzzles/crosswords.  Mirror
   sites, where the FAQ can be found, are also available.  The FAQ is also
   available in the crossword archive located at gatekeeper.dec.com in the
   directory /pub/micro/msdos/misc/crossword-archive.

   The FAQ is available on the WWW (World Wide Web) at
   http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/crossword-faq/top.html.

   If anyone wants to use a part of the FAQ for commercial gain I would
   like to know about it!

   Last modified: 2 March 1994

   Changes
   -------

   V1.00 Original.

   V2.00 Re-write of many sections including incorporation of material 
         previously stored in the rec.puzzles archive.

   V2.01 Spell checked and errors from V2.00 corrected.

   V2.10 Augmented the section about crossword software available and added
         some extra detail to some other answers.

   V3.00 More detail to many sections plus extended clue type examples. The 
         FAQ is now in four parts.

   V3.01 Errors from V3.00 corrected.

   V4.00 part3 and part4 inserted into crossword archive.  Details of
         crossword archive included.  Competition winners and details given
         separate section - new part3.  Other FAQ sections beefed up with 
         extra information and corrections.

   V4.10 Errors corrected from V4.00 plus some extra software descriptions
         added.

   V4.11 Updated crossword competition words only.

                            Questions
                            ---------

   (1)  What's the charter of rec.puzzles.crosswords?
   (2)  What are good dictionaries for crosswords?
   (3)  Are there good books of word-lists for crosswords?
   (4)  What technical papers are there about crosswords?
   (5)  What books are there on (solving) crosswords?
   (6)  Is there any FTP site for crossword related material?
   (7)  What software is available for crosswords?
   (8)  Are there any on-line dictionaries available?
   (9)  Standard tips for solving a cryptic crossword?
   (10) Misc. questions of interest.
   (11) What crossword related associations or publications are there?
   (12) What are ACC, CWC, and PCWC?
   (13) What words have been used in the above competitions?
   (14) Who has won the above competitions?

                             Answers
                             -------

(1) What's the charter of rec.puzzles.crosswords?

   NAME:
.rec.puzzles.crosswords

   STATUS:

.unmoderated

   DESCRIPTION:

.Forum for discussion of grid-based word puzzles

   CHARTER:

   To provide a forum for the submission of articles dealing with word
   puzzles such as crosswords, acrostics and word-searches.  Any puzzle
   which involves determining words arranged in a gridlike structure and in
   which there is no opponent (except perhaps the setter of the puzzle :-)
   is included within the coverage of this group.

   Posts of the following types are expected:

   o Complete puzzles to be solved by the readers
   o Computer programs for generating (solving?!) such puzzles
   o Details on how to go about creating your own puzzles
   o Individual favourite clues
   o Requests for help in solving and/or explaining cryptic clues
   o Explanations of how to solve cryptic crosswords in general
   o Sources for puzzles in your area of the world
   o Discussion of cryptic conventions, etc.

   though this is not intended to be an exhaustive list.

   The language used in the postings to the group is left up to the poster,
   but they should bear in mind the target audience they are trying to
   reach and what languages they are likely to understand.  The puzzles
   themselves can be in any language(s) the poster desires.

(2) What are good dictionaries for crosswords?

   There is no one definitive dictionary that you must have for  setting
   or solving crosswords.  On the other hand, in some contexts, it helps
   to know what dictionary has been used in setting a crossword,
   particularly for hard crosswords containing unusual words.  For
   example, The Listener crossword (now published in The Times) almost
   always uses "Chambers English Dictionary", with deviations from that
   being noted.  On the other  hand, in America, Merriam-Websters 10th
   Collegiate Dictionary is the standard of the National Puzzlers League
   (NPL - a wordplay club which devotes some of its time to crosswords). 
   In both countries there are many other good dictionaries of usable
   size.  Two mammoth dictionaries that solvers  and setters sometimes
   have to resort to are The Oxford English Dictionary and
   Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary.

   The NPL rank the well known dictionaries in order of preference as
   follows:

   10C (Merriam-Websters 10th Collegiate Dictionary) is better than NI3
   (Webster's Third New International) is better than NI2 (Webster's New
   International, 2nd Edition) is better than everything else.

   Great slang dictionaries for true word mavens include Partridge's "A
   Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English", "A Dictionary of the
   Underworld", and "The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang".
   Spears's "Slang and Euphemism" is quite good, as is Cassidy's
   "Dictionary of American Regional English" though only two of the
   three volumes have been published.

(3) Are there good books of word-lists for crosswords?

   You can probably find books of word-lists in your nearest bookshop.
   These are generally of two types: they may be a simple list of words
   or they may arrange their words by subject (birds, bees, etc).  Of
   the latter type, the classic American publication is Baus's "The
   Master Crossword Puzzle Dictionary".  Of the former, the classic
   British one is "Chambers Words", which contains, or purports to
   contain, all the words in Chambers English Dictionary, listed by word
   length and then alphabetically.  It has numerous errors, which are
   not corrected in subsequent additions.  See "What errors are known in
   Chambers Words?".  On the other hand, the errors still represent a
   tiny percentage of the whole, and Chambers also publishes "Back
   Words" (words listed in reverse alphabetical order) and "Anagrams"
   (words indexed by their letters collected into alphabetical order, so
   "anagram" is under "aaagmnr").  The New York Times also publish an
   adequate word-lists book.  See question 6.

(4) What technical papers are there about crosswords?

   Does anyone know any other E-Mail addresses of the authors detailed
   here?  It would make correspondence with them much easier. 

   %T A Prototype Crossword Compiler
   %A P.D. Smith and S.Y. Steen
   %J The Computer Journal
   %V 24/2, pp 107-111
   %Y 1981

   %T XENO: Computer-Assisted Compilation of Crossword Puzzles
   %A P.D. Smith
   %J The Computer Journal
   %V 26/4, pp 296-302
   %Y 1983

   %T The Generation of Cryptic Crossword Clues
   %A G.W. Smith, J.B.H. Du Boulay
   %J The Computer Journal
   %V 29/3, pp 282-283
   %Y 1986

   %T Crossword Compilation with Horn Clauses
   %A H. Berghel
   %J The Computer Journal
   %V 30/2, pp 183-188
   %Y 1987

   %T Crossword Compilation Using Integer Programming
   %A J.M. Wilson
   %J The Computer Journal
   %V 32/3, pp 273-275
   %Y 1989

   %T Crossword Compiler-Compilation
   %A H. Berghel, C. Yi
   %J The Computer Journal
   %V 32/3, pp 276-280
   %Y 1989

   %T A Proposed Standard for Measuring Crossword Compilation Efficiency
   %A H. Brerghel, R. Rankin (rrankin@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu)
   %J The Computer Journal
   %V 33/2 pp 181-184
   %Y 1990

   %T Computer Assisted Analysis of Cryptic Crosswords
   %A P.W. Williams, D. Woodhead
   %J The Computer Journal
   %V 22/? pp 67
   %Y 1979

   %T Crossword Compiling Puzzles the Programmer
   %A J. Cox
   %J Computer Weekly
   %V pp 17
   %Y 30 August 1979

   %T A Program for the Construction of Crossword Puzzles
   %A O. Feger
   %J Angewandte Informatik
   %V 17/5 pp 189-195
   %Y 1975

   %T An Investigation of Computer Generated Crossword Puzzles 
   %A L.J. Mazlack
   %J P.hD. Dissertation Washington University St. Louis
   %V
   %Y 1972

   %T The Use of Applied Probability in the Computer Construction of Crossword 
   Puzzles
   %A L.J. Mazlack
   %J IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control San Diego CA. 5-7 December.
   %V pp 497-506
   %Y 1973

   %T Data Structures Required for Crossword Puzzle Construction
   %A L.J Mazleck
   %J 36th Annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science L.A 
   21-25 Oct 1973
   %V pp 141-142
   %Y 1974

   %T Computer Construction of Crossword Puzzles using Precedence Relationships
   %A L.J. Mazlack
   %J Artificial Intelligence
   %V 7/1 pp 1-19
   %Y 1976

   %T Machine Selection of Elements in Crossword Puzzles
   %A L.J. Mazlack
   %J SIAM Journal of Computing
   %V 5/1, pp 51-72
   %Y March 1976

   %T Automation of Crossword Puzzle Solutions
   %A G. Harris, J. Spring
   %J Division Of CAD, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia
   %V Manuscript?
   %Y 1979

   I have been in contact with Geoff Harris and he has said he will send my
   on the 6-8 papers he and his colleagues have written about crosswords
   over the past few years.

   %T Redundancy Exploitation in the Computer Construction of Double-crostic
   %A E.S. Spiegelthal
   %J Proceedings of the EJCC.
   %V pp 39-56
   %Y 1960

   %T A Program to Solve Crossword Puzzles
   %A H.A. Bauer
   %J Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
   %V 
   %Y 1973

   %T Crossword Compilation Puzzles the Programmer
   %A J. Cox
   %J Computer Weekly
   %V 30 August, pp 17
   %Y 1979

   %T Automatic Crossword Compilation and Solution
   %A E.J. Jushvol
   %J B.Sc Thesis. Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
   %V 
   %Y 1984

   %T Microprocessor Compilation and Solution of Crosswords
   %A R.H. Davis, E.J. Jushwol
   %J Microproc. Microsystems
   %V 9/10 pp 500-506
   %Y 1985

   %T PICCUP: a Program for the Interpretation of Cryptic Crossword Clues
   %A M. Hart
   %J M.Sc Thesis Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
   %V 
   %Y 1991

   %T Cryptic Crossword Clue Interpreter
   %A M. Hart, R.H. Davis
   %J Information and Software Technology
   %V 34/1 pp 16-27
   %Y January 1992

   %T The world's fastest Scrabble program
   %A A.W. Appel, G.J. Jacobson (appel@cs.princeton.edu,guy@ulysses.att.com)
   %J Communications of the ACM
   %V 31/5 pp 572
   %Y May 1988

   %T Search Lessons Learned from Crossword Puzzles
   %A Matt L. Ginsberg et al
   %J Proceedings of AAAI 90
   %V ?
   %Y 1990?

   %T A Crossword Puzzle Generator For Turkish
   %A Ilan Berker, A. C. Cem Say
   %J international symposium of computer and information sciences 8
   %V ?
   %Y 1993

   In the publication "Word Ways" many crossword related technical papers
   have been published.  Anyone with a list please?

(5) What books are there on (solving) crosswords?

   %T Chambers Crossword Manual (Second Edition)
   %A Don Manley
   %P Chambers
   %Y 1992
   %N 0-550-19034-1

   I have to plug Manley's book as the best introductory book about solving
   non definition based crosswords I have read.  It goes through all the major
   clue types and there's even a section about setting your own crosswords.

   %T Observer AZED Crosswords
   %A Jonathan Crowther
   %P Chambers
   %Y 1991 
   %N 0-550-19032-5

   %T The AZED Book of Crosswords
   %A Jonathan Crowther
   %P Pan
   %Y 1977
   %N 0-330-25227-5

   %T The ABC of Crosswords (Originally: Teach Yourself Crosswords)
   %A Alec Robins (The Guardian's 'Custos'/Observer's 'Everyman')
   %P Corgi
   %Y 1981
   %N 0-552-11843-5

   %T The Modern Crossword Dictionary
   %A Norman G. Pulsford
   %P Pan
   %Y 1967
   %N 0-330-63128-4

   %T Chambers Words
   %P Chambers
   %Y 1985
   %N 0-550-19010-4

   %T Chambers Backwords for Crosswords
   %P Chambers
   %Y 1986
   %N 0-550-19012-0

   %T Chambers Anagrams
   %P Chambers
   %Y 1985
   %N 0-550-19011-2

   %T The Strange World of the Crossword
   %A Roger Millington
   %P Book Club Associates 
   %Y 1975
   %N 

   %T The Crossword Phrase Dictionary
   %A R.J. Edwards
   %P Stanley-Paul
   %Y 1981
   %N 0-09-143340-1

   %T The Newnes Crossword Dictionary
   %A J.M. Bailie
   %P Newnes Books
   %Y 1984
   %N 0-600-31923-7

   %T Ximenes on the Art of the Crossword
   %A D.S. Macnutt
   %P Methuen
   %Y 1966
   %N 

   %T The Ninth Book of Sunday Times Crosswords (Solver's Guide)
   %A Elizabeth and Derek Jewell
   %P Penguin
   %Y 1989
   %N 

   %T The ANAGRAM Dictionary
   %A Michael Curl
   %P Robert Hale
   %Y 1982
   %N 0-7091-9674-1

   %T Best of AZED Crosswords /* Selected from Azed 1-200 */
   %A Jonathan Crowther
   %P Chambers in association with the Observer
   %Y 1989
   %N 0-550-19030-9

   %T The (Almost) Impossible Crossword Book
   %A Gyles Brandreth
   %P Sphere
   %Y 1984
   %N 0-7221-1864-3

   %T The Complete Guide to Cryptic Crosswords
   %A J A Coleman
   %P Collins
   %Y 1989
   %N 0-00-434570-3

   %T Longman Crossword Solver's Dictionary
   %A Anne Bradford
   %P Longman
   %Y 1986
   %N 0-582-89301-1

   %T The Book of Lewis Carroll Crosswords
   %A Edited by Alfreda Blanchard
   %P Lewis Carroll Society
   %Y 1992
   %N 

   %T Cryptic Crossword Solver
   %A Jennifer Chandler
   %P Allen and Unwin Sydney
   %Y 1991
   %N 1-86373-043-5

   %T Cryptic Crosswords and How To Solve Them
   %A Michael Kindred and Derrick Knight
   %P Chambers
   %Y 1993
   %N 0-550-19036-8

   %T How to Solve A Crossword
   %A Colin Parsons
   %P Coronet Paperback
   %Y 1988
   %N 0-340-43079-6

   %T Crossword Dictionary
   %A Dawn Garrick
   %P Ace/Stoneshire Books
   %Y 1984
   %N

   %T Crossword Puzzle Dictionary
   %A Tophi Books
   %P 
   %Y 
   %N 0-86288-170-6

   %T Crosswords: How to solve them
   %A Ruth Crisp
   %P Hodder & Stoughton
   %Y 1992
   %N 0-340-57398-8

   %T Harper's Magazine Cryptic Puzzle Book 1st Edition
   %A E. R. Galli and Richard Maltby, Jr.
   %P Franklin Square Press
   %Y 1992
   %N 1-879957-05-1

   %T The Atlantic Monthly Puzzler Book Volume 1
   %A Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
   %P The Atlantic Monthly Company
   %Y 1992
   %N ?

   %T A Pleasure in Words
   %A Eugene T. Maleska
   %P Simon & Schuster
   %Y 1981
   %N ?

   %T Creative Cruciverbalists
   %A Helene Hovanec
   %P William Morrow & Company, Inc.
   %Y 1988
   %N ?

   %T Across and Down
   %A Eugene T. Maleska
   %P Simon & Schuster
   %Y 1984
   %N ?

   %T Crossword Crosstalk
   %A Barry Tunick & Sylvia Bursztyn
   %P Capra Pres
   %Y 1988
   %N ?

   %T Crossword Puzzle Compendium
   %A Editors of Consumer Guide
   %P Beekman House
   %Y ?
   %N 0-517-294656

   %T The Compleat Cruciverbalist
   %A Rosen and Kurzban
   %P ?
   %Y ?
   %N ?

   %T Chambers Dictionary on CD-ROM
   %A Chambers - 55 Stg
   %P Chambers
   %Y 1994
   %N 0-550-10260-4

   I am certain there are a lot more books out there, especially from our
   American cousins.  Please, if you have more information on books, let me
   know?  The incentive is that I will include your name at the bottom of
   the FAQ.  Lasting fame, eh :-).

(6) Is there any FTP site for crossword related material?

   The crossword archive is officially open for business :-).

   It's located at:

   FTP site -.gatekeeper.dec.com 
   directory -./pub/micro/msdos/misc/crossword-archive

   I propose to make this area *the* central focus of any software, free
   or otherwise, which has appeared or will appear on the Internet or in
   the newsgroup r.p.crosswords.

   If anyone, in the future, is thinking of publishing a crossword
   related  application, please let me know so that I can upload their
   application to the crossword archive where they will gain most
   visibility among our virtual crossword community.

   Most of the software mentioned in the FAQ section on crossword
   applications is already located in the archive.  If it isn't, it
   could be for one of two reasons: I am not sure whether the author
   wants it to be there, or more likely, I have not yet been able to get
   my hands on a  copy that I can put in the archive.

   So please, if there is some material that you think should be in the
   archive, be it a crossword application, some source code, some text,
   etc., I would be happy to oblige.

   Remember the archive is there for all our benefit, so use it!

(7) What software is available for crosswords?

   Most crossword related software is available via shareware with the
   usual shareware rules and regulations applying.  Quite a few of the
   developers of the crossword software mentioned below participate in
   the newsgroup, so if you have any questions or problems you only have 
   to ask.

   The applications included in the list below are all available in the
   crossword archive.  I have transferred the more detailed description
   of each into a file called INDEX located in the archive.  The format
   of  presentation below is: application name (crossword archive file
   name).

   1.  Crossword Creator (cwc.zip)
   2.  The Electronic Alveary (tea100.zip teabd100.zip teadac11.zip teadling.zip
       teabweb.zip ukacd11.zip)
   3.  Crossword Creator II (tm) (cwc2demo.lzh)
   4.  Wordlok (wrdlk11b.zip)
   5.  Enigmax (enigmx16.zip - supercedes enigmax1.zip)
   6.  Logos (logos.zip)
   7.  Crossword Word Finder (cwf12.zip)
   8.  Counterpoint Crossword Generator (counterx.zip - supercedes crssword.zip)
   9.  Crossword Construction Kit (cck13.zip)
   10. AX303 [or AXTOOLS] (axword.zip)
   11. Crossword Generator (Don't know its proper name??) (crossword-generator.hqx)
   12. CrossMaster (cross-master-112-demo.hqx)
   13. CrossPro (tm) (cross-pro-11-demo.hqx - supercedes cross-pro-demo.hqx)
   14. The Crosstik Program (cross2.zip)
   15. Crossword Compiler (DOS version: cw_v1.zip - Windows version: ccwin1.zip)
   16. Cross (cross_am.lzh)
   17. Crossword Companion (compnion.zip)
   18. Cyberspace Crossword Puzzle (3dxwd.zip)
   19. Crossword Program (bmcwrd.zip)
   20. (Don't know its proper name??) (os2_xwrd.zip)
   21. Xword (win_xwrd.zip)
   22. Crossword Power (cwpower.zip)
   23. Puzzler Solution Helper (pklr.zip)
   24. Word-find (wordfind.zip)
   25. Computer Crossword Puzzles System (ccps.zip)
   26. Crosspro (crosspro.zip)
   27. Compuzzle (crsswr.zip)
   28. The Daily Crossword (dalyxwrd.zip)
   29. Puz (puz10.zip)
   30. WordWiz (wordwiz.zip)
   31. Crossdown (xdown28.zip)
   32. New Puzzle Factory (newpuzz2.zip)

   Other applications I know exist but don't have in the crossword archive
   yet include:

   Name:            Crossword Modus
   Platform:        DOS
   Developer:       Eric Deeson
   Address:         20 Vaughan Avenue, London NW4 4HU. England.
   E-Mail Address:  ?
   FTP Site:        ?
   File Name:       ?
   Cost:            37.45 Stg

   Name:            Crossword Editor
   Description:     ?
   Platform:        ?
   Developer:       Wordplay.
   Address:         ?
   E-Mail address:  ?
   FTP site:        ?
   File name:       ?

   Name:            Criscros
   Platform:        DOS
   Developer:       Jerry Collins
   Address:         Box 110, 875A Island Drive, Alameda, CA 94501. USA.
   E-Mail address:  E-Mail Brad Kaenel (72357.3523@CompuServe.com)
   FTP site:        ?
   File name:       ?
   Cost:            $95

   Name:            WordCross
   Platform:        ?
   Developer:       ?
   Address:         Hi Tech.
   E-Mail Address:  ?
   FTP Site:        ?
   File Name:       ?
   Cost:            ?

   Name:            Crossword Magic
   Platform:        ?
   Developer:       ?
   Address:         Mindscape.
   E-Mail Address:  ?
   FTP Site:        ?
   File Name:       ?
   Cost:            ?

   Name:            Cross Words Deluxe
   Platform:        ?
   Developer:       ?
   Address:         
   E-Mail Address:  ?
   FTP Site:        Seen in America On-Line??
   File Name:       ?
   Cost:            ?

   Name:            Crosswords Plus (tm) for Windows / WordQuest (tm)
   Description:     ?
   Platform:        ?
   Developer:       Parsons Technology
   Address:         ?
   E-Mail address:  ?
   FTP site:        ?
   File name:       ?

   Name:            The Crossword Puzzler [CWP] (tm)
   Description:     Automates the composition, editing, and submission of
                    crossword puzzles.
   Platform:        DOS
   Developer:       Mel Rosen
   Address:         11718 Nicklaus circle, Tampa, FL 33624-4538, U.S.A.
   E-Mail address:  xkps13b@prodigy.com
   FTP site:        None
   File name:       None
   Cost:            $150 ($10 for a demo copy of CWP.  For this you also
                    get a demo copy of the Word Weaver - Contact Mel Rosen)

   Name:            The Word Weaver (Possibly also called Plexus??)
   Description:     Light generator which can also clip into CWP
   Platform:        DOS
   Developer:       Charles Clapp
   Address:         1106 Pebble Beach Blvd, Sun City Ctr, FL 33573-5333,
                    U.S.A.
   E-Mail address:  ?
   FTP site:        None
   File name:       None
   Cost:            $150 ($10 for a demo copy of the Word Weaver.  For this
                    you also get a demo copy of CWP - Contact Mel Rosen)

   I have scoured Library 8 of the IBMNEW forum on Compuserve for
   crossword based applications and I have come up with 6 to 8
   applications which I  had previously not seen on the Internet, or in
   any FTP site of my knowledge. I hope the developers of the respective
   products don't mind me putting them in their rightful (I think) home.

   There are some other packages which deal specifically with solving
   prepackaged puzzles.  A few games companies have released products in
   this bracket.  They include:

   1. Take-A-Break Crosswords from Sierra Games.
   2. Puzzle Master from Centron Software Technologies.
   3. The New York Times Crossword Puzzles from Swfte International Ltd.
   4. Dell Crossword Puzzles & Other Games from Apple Computer, Inc.

   There are some other crossword related applications and utilities in the
   archive which people, from time to time, have posted to the newsgroup. 
   These utilities/programs are explained in more detail in the file INDEX
   in the archive itself.

(8) Are there any on-line dictionaries available?

   There are quite a few locations where complete on-line dictionaries are 
   to be found on the Internet.  Many thanks must go to Ross Beresford for 
   the following list.

        File name(s)   : ukacd11.zip,teadac11.zip
        File size(s)   : 543330,530953
        Site(s)        : gatekeeper.dec.com (crossword archive)
        Directory      : /pub/micro/msdos/misc/crossword-archive
        Origin         : UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary
        Entries        : 185582
        Inflected Forms: yes
        Phrases        : yes
        Mixed case     : yes
        Comments       : Word list specifically for crosswords maintained
                         by Ross Beresford (ross@bryson.demon.co.uk).
                         ukacd11.zip is in plain ASCII; teadac11.zip is
                         in TEA format (see The Electronic Alveary).

.File name(s)   : web2.Z
.File size(s)   : 1038775
.Site(s)        : many sites (for example wuarchive.wustl.edu)
.Directory      : (for example /mirrors4/4.3bsd-reno/share/dict)
.Origin         : Websters 2nd Edition words (cf web2a.Z)
.Entries        : 234932
.Inflected Forms: no
.Phrases        : no
.Mixed case     : yes
.Comments       :

.File name(s)   : web2a.Z
.File size(s)   : 434291
.Site(s)        : many sites (for example wuarchive.wustl.edu)
        Directory      : (for example /mirrors4/4.3bsd-reno/share/dict)
.Origin         : Websters 2nd Edition phrases (cf web2.Z)
.Entries        : 76205
.Inflected Forms: no
.Phrases        : yes
.Mixed case     : yes
.Comments       :

.File name(s)   : OSPD.shar.Z
.File size(s)   : 472885
.Site(s)        : ftp.cs.cornell.edu
        directory      : /pub/turney
.Origin         : U.S. Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary
.Entries        : 113901
.Inflected Forms: yes
.Phrases        : no
.Mixed case     : no
.Comments       :

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.File size(s)   : 11179399
.Site(s)        : black.ox.ac.uk
        Directory      : /ota/dicts/1054
   .Origin         : Shorter Oxford English Dictionary
.Entries        : 119888
.Inflected Forms: yes
.Phrases        : no
.Mixed case     : yes
.Comments       : Maintained by the Oxford Text Archive.

.File name(s)   : words[1234].zip
.File size(s)   : 95306,74597,99024,84500
.Site(s)        : wuarchive.wustl.edu
        Directory      : /mirrors/msdos/linguistics
.Origin         : Uncertain (see read.me file)
.Entries        : 109582
.Inflected Forms: yes
.Phrases        : no
.Mixed case     : no
.Comments       : This list has also been seen split into zip
... files as evanwrd[1234].zip

.File name(s)   : words.english.Z
.File size(s)   : 288385
.Site(s)        : sparta.nmsu.edu,haywire.nmsu.edu
        Directory      : /pub/lexicals/word-lists
.Origin         : Unknown
.Entries        : 69964
.Inflected Forms: yes
.Phrases        : no
.Mixed case     : yes
.Comments       :

.File name(s)   : Unabr.dict.Z
.File size(s)   : 951951
.Site(s)        : arthur.cs.purdue.edu,
                         ftp.denet.dk
        Directory      : /pub/pcert/dict/misc/black.ox.ac.uk,
                         /pub/wordlists/dictionaries
.Origin         : Unknown
.Entries        : 213557
.Inflected Forms: no
.Phrases        : no
.Mixed case     : no
.Comments       :

.File name(s)   : unabrd.dic.Z
.File size(s)   : 1041512
.Site(s)        : world.std.com
        Directory      : /obi/WordLists/English
.Origin         : Unknown
.Entries        : 235544
.Inflected Forms: no
.Phrases        : no
.Mixed case     : yes
.Comments       :

.File name(s)   : pocket.dic.Z
.File size(s)   : 85821
.Site(s)        : ftp.uu.net
        Directory      : /doc/literary/obi/WordLists/English
.Origin         : Unknown
.Entries        : 21111
.Inflected Forms: no
.Phrases        : no
.Mixed case     : no
.Comments       :

.File name(s)   : w130794.Z
.File size(s)   : 522533
.Site(s)        : ftp.uu.net
        Directory      : /doc/literary/obi/WordLists/English
.Origin         : Unknown
.Entries        : 130794
.Inflected Forms: yes
.Phrases        : no
.Mixed case     : no
.Comments       :

.File name(s)   : ispell-3.0.09.tar.z
.File size(s)   : 467745
.Site(s)        : prep.ai.mit.edu
        Directory      : /pub/gnu
.Origin         : Uncertain (see README files)
.Entries        : ca. 50000
.Inflected Forms: yes
.Phrases        : no
.Mixed case     : yes
.Comments       : This is the GNU ispell package which could undergo
                         quite frequent releases. Hence the file name and
                         size could change.

.File name(s)   : roget13a.zip
.File size(s)   : 643011
.Site(s)        : mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
        Directory      : /gutenberg/etext91
.Origin         : Roget's Thesaurus, 1911
.Entries        : 
.Inflected Forms: yes
.Phrases        : yes
.Mixed case     : yes
.Comments       : Since this edition is out of copyright, it appears
                         in several different forms on the net. The one
                         above is maintained by Project Gutenberg.

.File name(s)   : dictionaries.tar.Z
.File size(s)   : 485521
.Site(s)        : guardian.cs.psu.edu
        Directory      : /pub
.Origin         : Unknown
.Entries        : 53091
.Inflected Forms: no
.Phrases        : no
.Mixed case     : yes
.Comments       : A collection of specialised word lists, primarily
                         intended for password screening.

   If there are problems FTPing any of the files mentioned above, I would
   like to know about it.  If you cannot find the file in the directory
   specified, consult your local archie to find an FTP site which does have
   the file in question (Thanks to Antony Lewis for this suggestion).

   There are some commercial outfits willing to sell you large word/phrase
   lists.  I advise you to think very carefully before deciding to buy any
   such lists as the files above will suffice in most circumstances, if you
   are looking for single word combinations only.  Probably the best known
   commercial word list(s) currently available is the 'Moby' dataset.  If
   you are interested in further details about 'Moby' please contact Grady
   Ward (grady@netcom.com).

   The 'Moby' dataset consists of the following pieces:

      Moby Thesaurus II     ($500)
      Moby Pronunciator     ($265)
      Moby Part-of-Speech   ($170)
      Moby Hyphenator       ($105)
      Moby Words II         ($100)   
