In this paper, we propose an dictionary-based English text compression algorithm; we name it star word ending (StarWE) because of certain similarities to the StarNT algorithm. Furthermore, StarWE borrows techniques that are used in WRT such as EOL coding, punctuation mark modeling, and n-gram matching. The main difference between StarWE and StarNT is in the division of the external dictionary; StarWE divides it by word endings so that the compressor would be able to obtain some of the tag information