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- Unix comes with a 'spell' utility complete with a file of
- correctly spelled words, and a file of derived words which
- look plausible to the 'spell' program, but are not. But
- the lists are not as complete as one would like.
-
- Here are some routines for augmenting the released spelling lists,
- and using them with the spell-routine.
-
- Commands:
-
- learn_word ... Learn correct spelling of a word or words.
- bad_word ... Learn that a word which might be derived from
- spell's spelling rules is in fact misspelled.
- spell ... Like spell, but uses the augmented lists.
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-
- I've also included 'words' and 'stop' files of words which have come
- up in my writing over the past few months. There's only one word in the
- stop-list: 'primative', which I suppose it derives as 'prima' + 'tive'.
- The correct spelling is 'primitive', which is in the standard list.
-
- The 'words' list has seventy-eight so far, some of which may not be suitable
- to all occasions.
-