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Links to some word lists
<a name="resources">Resources used in compiling this wordlist</a></h2><a name="resources">
</a><ul><a name="resources">
</a><li><a name="resources"></a><a href="http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/">The Moby lexicon project</a> / Grady Ward <p>
</p></li><li><a href="http://ftp.digital.com/pub/misc/stolfi-wordlists/">The stolfi wordlists</a> / Jorge Stolfi and the original wordlist authors<br>
The wordlists in different languages were very useful in finding international words by intersection.<p>
</p></li><li><a href="ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists">The wordlist collection at Oxford</a> / administered by Paul Leyland <p>
</p></li><li><a href="ftp://ftp.itri.bton.ac.uk/bnc/">British National Corpus</a> / frequency data by Adam Kilgarriff <br>
This database has both word frequency data and part-of-speech classification.
It could have saved me a lot of work if I had found it sooner... <p>
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</p></li><li><a href="http://jbauman.com/aboutgsl.html">The General Service List</a> / John Bauman and Brent Culligan <p>
</p></li><li><a href="http://www.behindthename.com/">Behind The Name - Name lists and etymological data</a> / Mike Campbell <p>
</p></li><li><a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2289.txt">One Time Password</a> / Neil Haller et al.<br>
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</p></li><li><a href="http://www.diceware.com/">The Diceware passphrase generator</a> / Arnold G. Reinhold<p>
</p></li><li><a href="http://www.interlingua.com/">Interlingua</a><p>
</p></li><li><a href="http://www.diac.com/~entente/basicpg.html">Basic English</a><p>
</p></li><li><a href="http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/">Name frequency reports from U.S. census data.</a><p>
</p></li><li><a href="http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/">The CIA world factbook</a><p>
</p></li><li>Name frequency reports in various languages from "baby name" sites.<p>
</p></li><li>Various geographic references<p>
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