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MikeH106
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04 Jun 2009, 7:32 pm

All right, I see a lot of online dictionaries floating around, so what I want to know is this:

Can I collect the spellings and pronunciations of all words in a dictionary, store them on a personal database, and write a script that allows the user to search them for lexical and phonetic properties? How would I legally do this? (What do other dictionary producers do?)


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04 Jun 2009, 7:37 pm

Check the licenses and copyright notices of the sources you plan to use. If it's only intended for personal use, I think you're OK.


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05 Jun 2009, 2:01 am

MikeH106 wrote:
All right, I see a lot of online dictionaries floating around, so what I want to know is this:

Can I collect the spellings and pronunciations of all words in a dictionary, store them on a personal database, and write a script that allows the user to search them for lexical and phonetic properties? How would I legally do this? (What do other dictionary producers do?)


You'll need lots of oversight, so that you dont have....

micturate v. pronunciation "piss"


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