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american-english(5) Users' Manual american-english(5)
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
There may be any number of word lists in /usr/share/dict/. /etc/dictionaries-common/words
is a symbolic link to the currently-chosen /usr/share/dict/<language> file.
/usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and is the
name by which other software should refer to the system word list. See select-default-
wordlist(8) for more information, and/or to change the currently-chosen word list.
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 re-
spectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist. Such lists should be coded us-
ing the ISO 8859-1 character set encoding.
SEE ALSO
ispell(1), select-default-wordlist(8), 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 compatibility, software should check
that location if /usr/share/dict/words does not exist.
AUTHOR
Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors. The Debian English word lists
are built from the SCOWL (Spell- Checker Oriented Word Lists) package, whose upstream edi-
tor is Kevin Atkinson <kevina AT users.net>.
Debian 16 June 2003 american-english(5)
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