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From: devine@vianet.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix Dictionaries
Message-ID: <135@vianet.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Jan-87 15:12:03 EST
Article-I.D.: vianet.135
Posted: Tue Jan 27 15:12:03 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Jan-87 04:33:56 EST
References: <2828@brl-adm.ARPA> <1987Jan22.110150.29415@sq.uucp>
Organization: Western Digital, Boulder Tech Ctr
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Summary: critique of UNIX's dictionary

> In article <2828@brl-adm.ARPA> dndobrin@athena.MIT.EDU writes:
> >Does anyone out there know where the 4.x or System V dictionaries come from?

In article <1987Jan22.110150.29415@sq.uucp>, dave@sq.UUCP writes:
> It makes me wonder too, when words like the following pass spell!
> [list of misspelled words deleted]

  Back around 1980 I wrote a spell check program for VAX/VMS.  To create
the dictionary I first gathered 100's of files to get the words.  Later
I copied the UNIX spelling list from a Version 7 machine.  That dictionary
was *loaded* with many misspelled words!  I spent hours editing it to
cull the obviously bad words (no fun staring at a screen).  There are 
probably still some words I missed.

  Moral: if it isn't your dictionary beware of who may have added words.

Bob Devine
[ I still have my 95,000 word dictionary if someone wants a copy.]