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american-english - a list of english words |
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!!DESCRIPTION |
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__/usr/share/dict/american-english__ is an ASCII file |
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which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per |
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!!FILES |
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''/etc/alternatives/dictionary'' is a symbolic link to a |
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''/usr/share/dict/'' file. |
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''/usr/share/dict/words'' is a symbolic link to |
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''/etc/alternatives/dictionary'', and is the name by |
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which other software should refer to the system word list. |
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See update-alternatives(8) for more |
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information. |
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The directory ''/usr/share/dict'' can contain word lists |
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for many languages, with name of the language in English, |
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e.g., ''/usr/share/dict/french'' and |
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''/usr/share/dict/danish'' contain respectively lists of |
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French and Danish words if they exist. Such lists should be |
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coded using the ISO 8859-1 character set |
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encoding. |
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!!SEE ALSO |
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ispell(1), update-alternatives(8), and the |
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''Filesystem Hierarchy Standard''. |
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!!HISTORY |
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The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from |
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any number of sources. |
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The system word list used to be ''/usr/dict/words''. For |
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compatibility, software should check that location if |
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''/usr/share/dict/words'' does not exist. |
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!!AUTHOR |
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Word lists are collected and maintained by various |
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