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Support for Oxford English #3770

@johann1764

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Oxford English is considered by some by the most "neutral" English.
It is basically British English except that words endings in -ize/izes/ized/ization are like US English.
Special case: colourized (GB: colourised US: colorized)

It is therefore natural to want to use this convention.

Codespell does not support it currently.
But the file codespell_lib/data/dictionary_en-GB_to_en-US.txt can be used to make two new ones:

  • dictionary_en-GB_to_en-OX.txt by keeping only -iz{e,es,ed,zing} words.
  • dictionary_en-US_to_en-OX.txt by skipping -iz{e,es,ed,zing} words and reversing the others from a->b to b->a.
  • dictionary_en_to_en-OX.txt can be done by merging the two previous ones.

(This requires a bit of special case management)

My question is twofold:

  1. Would you be interested if I PR this dictionary_en_to_en-OX.txt file ?
  2. If not, how do we do with the licensing ? I intend to include it in Naev https://codeberg.org/naev/naev which is also under GPL.

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