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This repository hosts a UTF-8-converted mirror of Alexander Lebedev's Russian spellchecking dictionary, originally from ftp://scon155.phys.msu.su/pub/russian/ispell/rus-ispell.tar.gz .

The most recent version of the dictionary is from 2005-04-02, so it is missing a few new words, but overall the quality is very good, and it is the only dictionary which exists in the three widespread varieties of the Russian orthography: "pure ye", "pure yo", and permissive.

It was converted to the Hunspell format in 2011 and modified slightly by Laszlo Nemeth in 2012.

It is the same dictionary used in Mozilla Firefox, packed by Alexander Slovesnik (@unghost).

This mirror is created to make the dictionaries available in an unpacked form.

The names of the files should be self-explanatory.

Use the dictionaries by running

hunspell -d ./ru-lebedev-{permissive,ye,yo}

The difference between the dictionaries is the following:

1. Permissive allows writing both ye and yo
2. Yo sometimes would have false-negatives, for example "все,всё"
3. Ye (should) always suggest replacing yo with ye


The files are taken from the following links, recoded into UTF-8, and tweaked the way Laszlo Nemeth did for the LibreOffice built-in dictionary.

1. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/4270210/russian_spellchecking_dic_3703-0.4.5.2resigned1.xpi
2. http://ftp.mozilla-russia.org/dictionaries/russian_spellchecking_dictionary_with_yo-0.2.2-fx+tb+sm.xpi
3. http://ftp.mozilla-russia.org/dictionaries/russian_spellchecking_dictionary_with_e-0.3.1-fx+tb+sm.xpi
