Re: Removing duplication: Word lists of common words in languages

To: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Removing duplication: Word lists of common words in languages
From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:23:25 +0000
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Ben Finney writes ("Re: Removing duplication: Word lists of common words in languages"):
> Where is a good authoritative source of such words, by frequency, for
> various natural languages, suitable for inclusion in Debian as a data
> package?

I had roughly this question in 2013, and found the answer.  Here is
probably the best starting point:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ijackson/git?p=evade-mail-usrlocal.git;a=blob;f=lemma.al-permission.mbox

Ian.

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