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1afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes
2afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesWEB ---- (introduction provided by jaw@riacs) -------------------------
3afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes
4afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesWelcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.
53c5184c1SGarrett WollmanThe 1934 copyright has lapsed, according to the supplier.  The
6afe61c15SRodney W. Grimessupplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted
7afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesnoun and adverbial phrases.  The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.
8afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes
9afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes     -- James A. Woods    {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw    (or jaw@riacs)
10afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes
1116db9c96SWolfram SchneiderCountry names are stored in the file /usr/share/misc/iso3166.
123061d671SDavid E. O'Brien
133061d671SDavid E. O'Brien
143061d671SDavid E. O'BrienFreeBSD Maintenance Notes ---------------------------------------------
153061d671SDavid E. O'Brien
163061d671SDavid E. O'BrienNote that FreeBSD is not maintaining a historical document, we're
173061d671SDavid E. O'Brienmaintaining a list of current [American] English spellings.
183061d671SDavid E. O'Brien
193061d671SDavid E. O'BrienA few words have been removed because their spellings have depreciated.
203061d671SDavid E. O'BrienThis list of words includes:
21077a005cSGarrett Wollman    corelation (and its derivatives)	"correlation" is the preferred spelling
22eb1a3bd8SGarrett Wollman    freen				typographical error in original file
23eb1a3bd8SGarrett Wollman    freend				archaic spelling no longer in use;
24eb1a3bd8SGarrett Wollman					masks common typo in modern text
25052ce526SMurray Stokely
26052ce526SMurray Stokely--
27052ce526SMurray Stokely
282402d448SMurray StokelyA list of technical terms has been added in the file 'freebsd'.  This
29052ce526SMurray Stokelyword list contains FreeBSD/Unix lexicon that is used by the system
30052ce526SMurray Stokelydocumentation.  It makes a great ispell(1) personal dictionary to
31052ce526SMurray Stokelysupplement the standard English language dictionary.
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