How was "words_alpha.txt" generated? about english-words HOT 5 OPEN

@a-m-p-m a good question. one for @spookiecookie 💭 ❓

from english-words.

@a-m-p-m
That was quite a bit ago... If I recall correctly it lacks words that weren't in the English dictionary file I had at hand. Laminations, lorsung, etc. were removed in that run.

List of words removed from words.txt: https://gist.github.com/spookiecookie/a4a1fd7f55a620ace49b2cc654621b9c

from english-words.

@spookiecookie Thanks.

Which English dictionary file would you use now for the same purpose (if you don't have info for the one that was used a while ago)? What would you recommend?

I might be missing something here:

Is it correct that "words_alpha.txt" is basically a sub-set of that English dictionary file that you used to cleanup "words.txt"?

If that is the case, would it make sense to just post the contents of that dictionary file instead of "words_alpha.txt" (or along with "words_alpha.txt")?
Would that be possible/permitted?

The English dictionary file that you used to cleanup "words.txt" would give a pretty extensive list of English words if that is a goal.

from english-words.

Nope :/

from english-words.

You can see how words_alpha is generated from the scripts in scripts/.

from english-words.