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Originally Posted by koboy
hi, could you please tell me what is the difference with this latest version? other than being slightly less in (MB) size.
best wishes koboy  |
Less extraneous words and letters. I just continue what oren64 has done. I do by entry rather than globally because I don't have editing software so the changes aren't regular over all of the dictionary. I added to or deleted from a few entries when I checked the current wiktionary.
Here's a few examples:
conveyorised
a. (context UK English) (alternative spelling of conveyorized English) vb. (context UK English) (en-past of: conveyorise): (alternative spelling of conveyorized nocap=1 English)
conveyorised
a. (UK English) (alternative spelling of conveyorized) vb. (UK English) (past of: conveyorise): (alternative spelling of conveyorized)
colored
a. 1 Having a color. 2 Having a particular :w:color or kind of color. 3 Having prominent colors; colorful. 4 Influenced pervasively but subtly.<!--is't this the past tense of the verb?--> 5 (context US now dated and potentially offensive English) Of skin color other than the white; in particular: black. 6 (context South Africa potentially offensive English) Of neither black nor white skin color. 7 (context chiefly historical English) Designated for use by colored people (qualifier: in either the US or South African sense). alt. 1 Having a color. 2 Having a particular :w:color or kind of color. 3 Having prominent colors; colorful. 4 Influenced pervasively but subtly.<!--is't this the past tense of the verb?--> 5 (context US now dated and potentially offensive English) Of skin color other than the white; in particular: black. 6 (context South Africa potentially offensive English) Of neither black nor white skin color. 7 (context chiefly historical English) Designated for use by colored people (qualifier: in either the US or South African sense). n. 1 (context US now dated and offensive English) A colored person. 2 (context laundry English) A colored article of clothing. vb. (en-past of: color)
colored
a. 1 Having a color. 2 Having a particular color or kind of color. 3 Having prominent colors; colorful. 4 Influenced pervasively but subtly. 5 (US now dated and potentially offensive) Of skin color other than the white; in particular: black. 6 (South Africa potentially offensive) Of neither black nor white skin color. 7 (chiefly historical) Designated for use by colored people (in either the US or South African sense). alt. coloured n. 1 (US, now dated and offensive) A colored person. 2 (laundry) A colored article of clothing. vb. (past of: color)
coltsfoot
n. An herbaceous plant, species (taxlink Tussilago farfara species noshow=1), that grows in Europe and the Middle East.
coltsfoot
n. An herbaceous plant, (Tussilago farfara), that grows in Europe and the Middle East.