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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: What does "spell" do wrong?
Message-ID: <10650050@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 17 May 89 13:30:31 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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>I've been wondering what the program "spell" does, since it
>seems to make very many errors. Some examples of words it thinks
>are spelled correctly are
>
>utomsrr
>mgdesou
>aneorxx

What drug were you on when you put these "misspellings" in your document? :-)

Actually, most implementations of spell(1) use a hashed dictionary of
correct words.  These words apparently happened to hash to the same
place as real words.

Dave Decot