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In article <900919072...@lilac.berkeley.edu> DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET writes:
>(totally unrelated.) I've been playing with Russian hyphenation (indeed, my
>MA thesis was about a very good Liang-based algorithm for doing just that),
>and I've seen an algorithm (not mine:) that hyphenates, in particular,
>AC-PU. :) There's a Russian language newspaper in NYC, and whatever they use
>for hyphenation wasn't apparently meant for Russian: it breaks
>'zdr-awstwujte' and 'prof-essor', nor for English ('tha-nks'); (I've seen
>all of those in the paper). On the other hand, your Pravda breaks
>'perest-rojka' a lot, totally non-Russian. :)
>
>Of course, English (mis)hyphenations give rise to even funnier breaks. The
>NYTimes uses some really dumb hyphenation algorithm that breaks "gran-daunt"
>et al. This I've seen, but one can come up with cute examples, like
>"the-rapists pre-ached on wee-knights" (from the TeXbook) or "rear-range
>off-ending par-king", but this is made up. Who's seen really bad hyphenation
>breaks in real life publications? Post 'em up. :)
>
>D.V.


Dmitri - do either you or our new Soviet friends have a Russian word list
I could have?  I'm internationalizing (I know, everyone hates the word) my
Scrabble game.  I have physical Scrabble sets for several languages including
Russian, so I know how the display should be done; but no foreign word lists.
(Well, not true; I have a very sketchy French word list and an even sketchier
Scots Gaelic list)

If anyone can offer such a list with no major strings attached (like licensing
or *pay*ing ;-) ) I'ld be very grateful!

Regards,
   Graham Toal <gt...@ed.ac.uk>

PS Same applies to Deutsch, Nederlands, Italia, Espagnol, ...