WORDS(S)             Linux Programmers Manual            WORDS(S)



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/<language> 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 sys-
       tem word list.  See update-alternatives(s) for more infor-
       mation.

       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(l),  update-alternatives(s),  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 com-
       patibility,   software   should  check  that  location  if
       /usr/share/dict/words does not exist.

AUTHOR
       Word  lists  are  collected  and  maintained  by   various
       authors.



Linux                      29 Sept 1998                  WORDS(S)