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<H1>british-english</H1>
Section: Users' Manual (5)<BR>Updated: 16 June 2003<BR><A HREF="#index">Index</A>
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<H2>NAME</H2>
british-english - a list of English words
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<H2>DESCRIPTION</H2>
<B>/usr/share/dict/british-english</B>
is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per
line.
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<H2>FILES</H2>
There may be any number of word lists in /usr/share/dict/.
<I>/etc/dictionaries-common/words</I>
is a symbolic link to the currently-chosen
<I>/usr/share/dict/&lt;language&gt;</I>
file.
<I>/usr/share/dict/words</I>
is a symbolic link to
<I>/etc/dictionaries-common/words</I>,
and is the name by which other software should refer to the
system word list.
See
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+select-default-wordlist">select-default-wordlist</A></B>(8)
for more information, and/or to change the currently-chosen word list.
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The directory
<I>/usr/share/dict</I>
can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language
in English, e.g.,
<I>/usr/share/dict/french</I>
and
<I>/usr/share/dict/danish</I>
contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist.
Such lists should be coded using the ISO 8859-1 character set encoding.
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<H2>SEE ALSO</H2>
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?1+ispell">ispell</A></B>(1),
<B><A HREF="/cgi-bin/man/man2html?8+select-default-wordlist">select-default-wordlist</A></B>(8),
and the
<I>Filesystem Hierarchy</I>
<I>Standard</I>.
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<H2>HISTORY</H2>
The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number
of sources.
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The system word list used to be
<I>/usr/dict/words</I>.
For compatibility, software should check that location if
<I>/usr/share/dict/words</I>
does not exist.
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<H2>AUTHOR</H2>
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 editor is
Kevin Atkinson &lt;<A HREF="mailto:kevina@users.sourceforge.net">kevina@users.sourceforge.net</A>&gt;.
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<DT id="5"><A HREF="#lbAF">HISTORY</A><DD>
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