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2WEB ---- (introduction provided by jaw@riacs) -------------------------
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4Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.
5The 1934 copyright has lapsed, according to the supplier.  The
6supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted
7noun and adverbial phrases.  The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.
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9     -- James A. Woods    {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw    (or jaw@riacs)
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11Country names are stored in the file /usr/share/misc/iso3166.
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14FreeBSD Maintenance Notes ---------------------------------------------
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16Note that FreeBSD is not maintaining a historical document, we're
17maintaining a list of current [American] English spellings.
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19A few words have been removed because their spellings have depreciated.
20This list of words includes:
21    corelation (and its derivatives)	"correlation" is the preferred spelling
22    freen				typographical error in original file
23    freend				archaic spelling no longer in use;
24					masks common typo in modern text
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28A list of technical terms has been added in the file 'freebsd'.  This
29word list contains FreeBSD/Unix lexicon that is used by the system
30documentation.  It makes a great ispell(1) personal dictionary to
31supplement the standard English language dictionary.
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