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1#	@(#)README	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
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3WEB ---- (introduction provided by jaw@riacs) -------------------------
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5Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.
6The 1934 copyright has lapsed, according to the supplier.  The
7supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted
8noun and adverbial phrases.  The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.
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10     -- James A. Woods    {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw    (or jaw@riacs)
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12Country names are stored in the file /usr/share/misc/iso3166.
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15FreeBSD Maintenance Notes ---------------------------------------------
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17Note that FreeBSD is not maintaining a historical document, we're
18maintaining a list of current [American] English spellings.
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20A few words have been removed because their spellings have depreciated.
21This list of words includes:
22    corelation (and its derivatives)	"correlation" is the preferred spelling
23    freen				typographical error in original file
24    freend				archaic spelling no longer in use;
25					masks common typo in modern text
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27--
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29A list of technical terms has been added in the file 'freebsd'.  This
30word list contains FreeBSD/Unix lexicon that is used by the system
31documentation.  It makes a great ispell(1) personal dictionary to
32supplement the standard English language dictionary.
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