OGDEN's BASIC ENGLISH    
News of the Institute 2006    

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Accomplishments of December 2006
• Expand summary of Basic English and Its Uses by I.A. Richards.
• Add summary of Design for Escape by I.A. Richards.
• IDP translation version 0.6a&b. The vocabulary has 39,733 words, derivatives, spellings and senses.
Accomplishments of November 2006
• Added summary of Basic Rules of Reason by I.A. Richards.
• Added summary of Death in High Society by Inez Holden.
• Completed summary of The Basic Teacher - we need transcribers--16 chapters remain raw scanned (of 45).
• Added Summary of "Basic for Business".
Accomplishments of October 2006
• Version 0.6 data is prepared. Four download files were leased this month.
  • OOo spell check ver 0.2
  • Developers XLS file is released, this is our raw data file.
  • IDP translation version 0.6. The vocabulary has 39,155 words, derivatives, spellings and senses
  • Translation for OOo.
Accomplishments of September 2006
• IDP Translation. Release Version 0.5m of English to Basic translation. The vocabulary has 39,054 words, derivatives, spellings and senses.
• Beta test available of Translation thesaurus for OpenOffice, by Carl Ray, Ed.D
• Experimental and rudimentary use of browser for standard English to Basic translation.
Accomplishments of August 2006
• IDP Translation. Release Version 0.5k of English to Basic translation. The vocabulary has 38,401 words, derivatives, spellings and senses.
Accomplishments of July 2006
• Add chapters to The Basic Teacher
Accomplishments of June 2006
• Add chapters to Basic Step by Step
Accomplishments of May 2006
• IDP Translation. Release Version 0.5j of English to Basic translation. The vocabulary has 37,473 words, derivatives, spellings and senses.
• IDP Translation. Release Version 0.5i of English to Basic translation. The vocabulary has 36,814 words, derivatives, spellings and senses.
Accomplishments of April 2006
• IDP Translation. Release Version 0.5h of English to Basic translation. The vocabulary has 36,282 words, derivatives, spellings and senses.
Accomplishments of Febrary 2006
• Added to text summary pages : "Basic by Isotype", "A Semantically Sequenced Way of Teaching English", and "Basic and the Teaching of English in Burma".
• IDP Translation. Release Version 0.5g of English to Basic translation. The vocabulary has 35,158 words, derivatives, spellings and senses.
Accomplishments of Janaury 2006
• Gathered information for defining and aids for Simple English = Basic + Most frequent English words.
• Spell Checking for OOo updated with simplified instructions.

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