Contacting Jim Breen

• All verbs in plain form. The English must begin with "to ....". Add the verb type in some prominent place.
  
  
• Add (adj-na) or (adj-no) or (vs) as appropriate to nouns. Do not put the "na" or "no" particles on the Japanese, or the "suru" auxiliary verb. For entries which have (vs), do not enter them as verb infinitives (e.g. "to cook"), instead enter them as gerunds/participles/whatever (e.g. cooking (vs)). For details of the codes to use, look no further than here.
  
  
• Indicate prefixes and suffixes by "(pref)" and "(suf)" in the first English entry, not by using "-" in the kanji or kana.
  
  
• Do not add definite or indefinite articles (e.g. "a", "an", "the", etc) to English nouns unless they are necessary to distinguish the word from another usage type or homonym.
  
  
• Do not guess the kanji or the reading. If you don't know them, don't send it to me. I will check all incoming suggestions, and I get grumpy when I find sloppy errors. One of the most persistent problems in editing EDICT is finding and eliminating incorrect kanji and kana.
  
  
• Do not use the "/", "[" or "]" characters except in their separating roles.
  
  
• If you are using a reference in romaji form, make sure you have the correct kana for "too/tou" and "zu", where the Hepburn romaji is often ambiguous.
  
  
• Do not use kana or kanji in the "English" fields. Where it is necessary to use a Japanese word, e.g. kanto, use Hepburn romaji.
  
  
• Make sure your kana is correct. A persistent problem is the submission of words like "honyaku" as ho+nya+ku instead of the correct ho+n+ya+ku.
  
  
• Do not include words formed by common Japanese suffixes, such as "-teki", unless they cannot be deduced from the root.
  
  
• Name your sources, e.g. which dictionary you found it in.
  
  
• Be absolutely sure about the spelling. Half the email sent submitting a word is in error, because people have mis-spelled the word in the first place. As a consequence, doing a search will lead to a negative, giving you the false impression the word (properly spelled) isn't already in EDICT.

For those wishing to work on the data, a Wiki has been setup at the EDRDG website.

Given all the above, Jim Breen can be reached at either (j.breen@csse.monash.edu.au) or through the submission form.

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