<< On June 1, 1996 Grady Ward announced that the fruits of the Moby project were being placed in the public domain:
The Moby lexicon project is complete and has
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The project is available either as a complete distribution [26MB] or as set of subprojects:
- Moby Hyphenator
185,000 entries fully hyphenated
mhyph.tar.Z [980kB]
- Moby Language
Word lists in five of the world's great languages
mlang.tar.Z [2.3MB]
- Moby Part-of-Speech
230,000 entries fully described by part(s) of speech, listed in priority order
mpos.tar.Z [1.2MB]
- Moby Pronunciator
175,000 entries fully International Phonetic Alphabet coded
mpron.tar.Z [3.1MB]
- Moby Shakespeare
The complete unabridged works of Shakespeare
mshak.tar.Z [2.3MB]
- Moby Thesaurus
30,000 root words, 2.5 million synonyms andrelated words
mthes.tar.Z [12MB]
- Moby Words
610,000+ words and phrases.
The largest word list in the world
mwords.tar.Z [4.0MB].
A mirror of this information is also available at
Project Gutenburg
(you need to search for the MOBY project in Gutenberg's database).
Last modified: October 24, 2000
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The Institute for Language Speech and Hearing, The University of Sheffield