The dictionaries in this directory are in the new format used by Excalibur 2.0 and later. If you try to open these dictionaries with an older version of Excalibur, it may crash. In Excalibur 2.3 and later, these dictionaries use Apple's extended character set to represent accented characters. The "Standard Dictionary" distributed with Excalibur is a minimal American English dictionary with 47,455 words. The "American English" dictionary in this directory contains about 104,000 words.