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