============================================ downloaded from archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20170930060409/http://icon.shef.ac.uk/Moby/ << On June 1, 1996 Grady Ward announced that the fruits of the Moby project were being placed in the public domain: The Moby lexicon project is complete and has been place into the public domain. Use, sell, rework, excerpt and use in any way on any platform. Placing this material on internal or public servers is also encouraged. The compiler is not aware of any export restrictions so freely distribute world-wide. You can verify the public domain status by contacting Grady Ward 3449 Martha Ct. Arcata, CA 95521-4884 daedal@myrealbox.com >> ============================================== original readme.txt below QUICK START 17 May 93 Copy all the files on all the disks to a folder on your hard disk (make sure you have at two (4) megabytes of free space on your hard disk for each disk of Moby product). Change your current directory ('CD') to that folder, type BUILD and press (enter). The files that are extracted may be viewed and edited by any capable text-editor, such as Microsoft Word 5.x. Moby (tm) Words II Documentation Notes This documentation, the software and/or database are: Copyright (c) 1988-93, Grady Ward. All Rights Reserved. 3449 Martha Ct. Arcata, CA 95521-4884 USA (707) 826-7715 (voice/24-hr 7 day FAX) grady@netcom.com License Agreement This documentation, software and/or database was developed and copyrighted by Grady Ward and is licensed, not sold, to you on a non-exclusive, non-transferable basis. The documentation, software and/or database and derivative works of this database may not be copied in whole or part except for archival purposes as provided by law. If you have purchased the commercial license, Grady Ward explicitly grants you the limited right to create and market data structures or knowledge bases derived this work without further payment of a license fee, as long as the purpose and effect of that data structure or knowledge base is other than re-distributing that Grady Ward data structure or database. (In other words, you can freely distribute data structures based upon any or all of this work as long as you take reasonable care to prevent unlicensed persons and organizations from accessing the ASCII source.) Willful copyright violations are both a civil and a criminal offense [17USC500] Disclaimer of Warranty This documentation, software and/or database is sold "as is" and without express or implied warranties as to performance or merchantability for a particular purpose.The user is advised to test the documentation, software and/or database thoroughly before relying on it. The user assumes the entire risk of using this documentation, software and/or database and any liability of seller or manufacturer will be limited to product replacement or refund of the license fee. Moby (tm) Words II for the MSDOS operating system is compressed and distributed on two 1.4MB double-sided diskettes. After self-extraction, the vocabulary files included with this product are in ordinary ASCII format with CRLF (ASCII 13/10) delimiters. MOBY WORDS II CONTENTS 354,984 single words Over 354,000 single words, excluding proper names, acronyms, or compound words and phrases. This list does not exclude archaic words or significant variant spellings. 256,772 compound words Over 256,700 hyphenated or other entries containing more than one word as well as all capitalized words and acronyms. Phrases were considered 'common' if they or variations of them occur in standard dictionaries or thesauruses. 113,809 official crosswords A list of words permitted in crossword games such as Scrabble(tm). Compatible with the first edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary(tm). Since this list has all forms: -ing, -ed, -s, and so on of words, it makes a good addition when building a custom spelling dictionary. 4,160 official crosswords delta When combined with the 113,809 crosswords file, it produces the official crossword list compatible with the second edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. (Scrabble is a registered trademark of Milton-Bradley licensed to Merriam-Webster.) 74,550 common dictionary words A list of words in common with two or more published dictionaries. This gives the developer of a custom spelling checker a good beginning pool of relatively common words. 21,986 names This database contains the most common names used in the United States and Great Britain. Spelling checkers may want to supplement their basic word list with this one. 4,946 female names frequent given names of females in English speaking countries 3,897 male names frequent given names of males in English speaking countries 10,196 places a large selection of place names in the United States 1,000 by frequency This file consists of the 1,000 most frequently used English words from a wide variety of common texts listed in decreasing order of frequency 1,000 by frequency internet This file consists of the 1,000 most frequently used English words as used on the Internet computer network in 1992. 6,213 acronyms common acronyms & abbreviations 1,185 King James Version frequent substrings The most frequently occurring 1,185 substrings in the King James Version Bible ranked and counted by order of frequency. 467 current fiction substrings The most frequently occurring 467 substrings occurring in a best-selling novel by Amy Tan in 1990. USA Constitution The Constitution of the United States, including the Bill of Rights and all amendments current to 1993. NOTE: Accents have been stripped from words, e.g., 'etude' does not mark the accent on the initial 'e'.