What do these capital letters mean after the /
character in the en-US.dic
file found in the \Firefox\Dictionaries
folder?
For example:
collectivism/M
collectivist/MS
collectivity
collectivization/M
collectivize/GDS
collector/MS
colleen/SM
college/SM
collegial
What does M
or MS
or GDS
, etc. mean? I'm sure there's documentation online somewhere, but I'm not having much luck finding it.
Best Answer
The letter identifiers refer to affixes listed in the corresponding
.aff
file. This prevents the need to list every form of every word in the.dic
file. See "Understanding the Affix File Format" for further information.The same format is used by the MySpell spell checker.