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Full title of the source version: "English-Greek dictionary"
Original description: "Copyright: http://www.freelang.net/dictionary/; Version: 1.0 [FreeDict clean-up, phase II]"
Converted from version 1.0 distributed by the XDXF project, part of Sourceforge.net.
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This glossary has been apparently put together from two others, using different headword conventions, different diacritics and at least in part being prepared by non-expert lexicographers. In part, it's a phrase book. It also appears to contain some specialized zoological terminology. It comes from the XDXF project housed at Sourceforge. Changes in the XDXF file: * some homophones are not disambiguated by means of POS, and some are collapsed into a single entry - I didn't fix such cases. * braces inside <k> became dtrn/"dom"; inside <ar>: dtrn/"hint" * threw away over 200 duplicated entries, merged some of them, split a few others, especially around slashes; removed stray diacritics, fixed capitalization (to some extent only) * introduced <dtrn> instead of brackets or braces (needed a <note>-like element) * tried to avoid touching equivalents, added Αθήνα to Athens (hmm), threw away stuff like <ar><k>burst out into tears</k> ξεσπώ σε δάκρυα, ξεσπώ σε γέλια</ar> (there weren't many such cases, mostly of them involved duplicated headwords or equivalents; I only fixed those equivalents that I noticed in the process of pruning [some!] duplicate headwords) * the ordering of entries here is changed from the original (I wanted to have identical headwords next to each other, then I resorted); threw away lots of whitespace * changed "sea sick" into "I am sea-sick", according to the translation - it could be "be sea-sick" as well; in general, there are lots of entries in "I", "be", "a" or "the", etc...; sometimes the only difference is in the handling of compounds ("seasick" vs. "sea-sick" vs. "sea sick") * this dictionary (well, glossary) needs LOTS of lexicographic work still <dtrn> is just an abused element here; according to the XDXF spec, dtrn had the @type attribute, but the DTD wouldn't allow it, so I added: <!ATTLIST dtrn type CDATA #IMPLIED> Values: "hint" for further explanations/examples in Greek, "infl" for inflections of the headword (used inconsistently in the source), "pos" (inconsistent) for POS values of headwords in cases that I noticed during the clean-up phase "dom" for some domain restrictions, etc., provided in English "colloc" for broadly understood collocates of the headword or sense restrictions "variant" inconsistent: for spelling variants (instal(l)ment) but also dialectal variants (autumn/fall) and abbreviations "editor" for internal notes Before the transformation into TEI, it has 20973 entries, some of which are still duplicated, and some of which should be split (e.g. "Norwegian", into adj and noun, etc.). The XDXF original had 21237 <ar> elements. Piotr Bański, November 2009, http://freedict.org/