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5*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoWEB ---- (introduction provided by jaw@riacs) -------------------------
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7*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoWelcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.
8*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThe 1934 copyright has elapsed, according to the supplier.  The
9*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinosupplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted
10*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinonoun and adverbial phrases.  The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.
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12*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino     -- James A. Woods    {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw    (or jaw@riacs)
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14*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoDictionaries for other languages, e.g. Afrikaans, American, Aussie,
15*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoChinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French,
16*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoGerman, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Polish,
17*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoRussian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Yiddish, are available
18*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinoat ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists.
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20*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoCountry names are stored in the file /usr/share/misc/iso3166.
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23*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoFreeBSD Maintenance Notes ---------------------------------------------
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25*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoNote that FreeBSD is not maintaining a historical document, we're
26*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinomaintaining a list of current [American] English spellings.
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28*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoA few words have been removed because their spellings have depreciated.
29*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThis list of words includes:
30*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino	corelation (and its derivatives) -- "correlation" is the preferred spelling
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34*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoA list of technical terms has been added in the file 'freebsd'.  This
35*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinoword list contains FreeBSD/Unix lexicon that is used by the system
36*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinodocumentation.  It makes a great ispell(1) personal dictionary to
37*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinosupplement the standard English language dictionary.
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