1# @(#)README 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 2# $FreeBSD: src/share/dict/README,v 1.7.2.2 2002/08/20 21:42:32 alfred Exp $ 3# $DragonFly: src/share/dict/README,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:36:56 dillon Exp $ 4 5WEB ---- (introduction provided by jaw@riacs) ------------------------- 6 7Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth. 8The 1934 copyright has elapsed, according to the supplier. The 9supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted 10noun and adverbial phrases. The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim. 11 12 -- James A. Woods {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw (or jaw@riacs) 13 14Dictionaries for other languages, e.g. Afrikaans, American, Aussie, 15Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, 16German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, 17Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Yiddish, are available 18at ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists. 19 20Country names are stored in the file /usr/share/misc/iso3166. 21 22 23FreeBSD Maintenance Notes --------------------------------------------- 24 25Note that FreeBSD is not maintaining a historical document, we're 26maintaining a list of current [American] English spellings. 27 28A few words have been removed because their spellings have depreciated. 29This list of words includes: 30 corelation (and its derivatives) -- "correlation" is the preferred spelling 31 32-- 33 34A list of technical terms has been added in the file 'freebsd'. This 35word list contains FreeBSD/Unix lexicon that is used by the system 36documentation. It makes a great ispell(1) personal dictionary to 37supplement the standard English language dictionary. 38