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1afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes#	@(#)README	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
27f3dea24SPeter Wemm# $FreeBSD$
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4afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesWEB ---- (introduction provided by jaw@riacs) -------------------------
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6afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesWelcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.
7afe61c15SRodney W. GrimesThe 1934 copyright has elapsed, according to the supplier.  The
8afe61c15SRodney W. Grimessupplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted
9afe61c15SRodney W. Grimesnoun and adverbial phrases.  The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.
10afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes
11afe61c15SRodney W. Grimes     -- James A. Woods    {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw    (or jaw@riacs)
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13f7518e20SWolfram SchneiderDictionaries for other languages, e.g. Afrikaans, American, Aussie,
14f7518e20SWolfram SchneiderChinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French,
15f7518e20SWolfram SchneiderGerman, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Polish,
16f7518e20SWolfram SchneiderRussian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Yiddish, are available
17f7518e20SWolfram Schneiderat ftp://sable.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists.
1816db9c96SWolfram Schneider
1916db9c96SWolfram SchneiderCountry names are stored in the file /usr/share/misc/iso3166.
203061d671SDavid E. O'Brien
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223061d671SDavid E. O'BrienFreeBSD Maintenance Notes ---------------------------------------------
233061d671SDavid E. O'Brien
243061d671SDavid E. O'BrienNote that FreeBSD is not maintaining a historical document, we're
253061d671SDavid E. O'Brienmaintaining a list of current [American] English spellings.
263061d671SDavid E. O'Brien
273061d671SDavid E. O'BrienA few words have been removed because their spellings have depreciated.
283061d671SDavid E. O'BrienThis list of words includes:
293061d671SDavid E. O'Brien	corelation (and its derivatives) -- "correlation" is the preferred spelling
30052ce526SMurray Stokely
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33052ce526SMurray StokelyA list of technical terms has been added in the file 'tech'.  This
34052ce526SMurray Stokelyword list contains FreeBSD/Unix lexicon that is used by the system
35052ce526SMurray Stokelydocumentation.  It makes a great ispell(1) personal dictionary to
36052ce526SMurray Stokelysupplement the standard English language dictionary.
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