1. A computer readable medium having a lexicon for storing word information and adapted for use in a language processing system, the lexicon comprising: a word list section for storing a plurality of words; a plurality of data sections, each data section for storing substantially different selected information about the words in the word list; and an indices section for storing pointers, each of the pointers pointing to data in the plurality of data sections, wherein an identification of the which pointer to use is a function of the corresponding word in the word list section.