Dictionaries

Dictionaries for use with TAS Professional Powered by CAS

Language Dictionaries

Afrikaans

American

Aussie

Brazilian Portuguese

Mauricio Longo

British

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Finnish

French

German-gt3 - ("Old" Std German)

GermanNew-gt3 - ("New" Std German)

Hungarian

Italian

Norwegian

Polish

Portuguese

Russian

Spanish

Swedish

Specialized Dictionaries

Technical Words from mathematics, statistics, computing, accounting and other scientific areas. Includes British & American spellings.

Medical

American Spellings.

Legal

American Spellings.

King James Bible + Apocrypha

Public Domain version of the King James Bible + Apocrypha converted into a Dictionary.

Latin

Italian Medical

Russian Scientific Beta Release

Auto-Correct Custom Dictionaries

English

Common English Auto Corrections.

US to British

Auto Corrects American Spellings to British ones.

Thesaurus not implemented in taspro yet.

Roget's Thesaurus - US English

Thesaurus based on the public domain version of Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus - UK English

UK English Translation of the public domain version of Roget's Thesaurus.

Commercial Offerings

Stedman's Plus Medical/ Pharmaceutical Word List

Developed, and created by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, one of the largest healthcare publishers. Stedman's Plus Medical/Pharmaceutical Word list features nearly half a million medical, drug and bioscience terms from 57 major medical specialties.

Includes:

* Over 20,000 trade and generic drug names drawn from Facts and Comparisons American Drug Index.

* Over 80,000 medical equipment and surgical terms

* Over 72,000 eponyms

* The most current terms related to diseases, treatments, medical procedures, lab tests, medical/surgical equipment, medical specialties, eponyms, abbreviations, and more!

Note: the boxed/CD-ROM product does not include an Addict-compatible file. www.stedmans.com/section.cfm/59

stedmans@lww.com

A brief commentary on dictionaries

There is a common misconception that the larger the dictionary is the better it is. While this may be true of reference texts, it is not true of dictionaries used with spelling checkers. The ideal dictionary will have the largest cross-section of words that are actually used in everyday documents, but will be very sparse with infrequently used words. Why is this? The answer is actually rather simple. The more uncommon words that the dictionary contains, the higher the chance that the user will misspell a common word in a form that will end up as a properly spelled word. Thus the spelling checker would believe the word to be spelled correctly even though the user quite possible had never even heard of the word before.