README
1# @(#)README 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
2# $FreeBSD$
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4WEB ---- (introduction provided by jaw@riacs) -------------------------
5
6Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.
7The 1934 copyright has lapsed, according to the supplier. The
8supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted
9noun and adverbial phrases. The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.
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11 -- James A. Woods {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw (or jaw@riacs)
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13Country names are stored in the file /usr/share/misc/iso3166.
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16FreeBSD Maintenance Notes ---------------------------------------------
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18Note that FreeBSD is not maintaining a historical document, we're
19maintaining a list of current [American] English spellings.
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21A few words have been removed because their spellings have depreciated.
22This list of words includes:
23 corelation (and its derivatives) "correlation" is the preferred spelling
24 freen typographical error in original file
25 freend archaic spelling no longer in use;
26 masks common typo in modern text
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28--
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30A list of technical terms has been added in the file 'freebsd'. This
31word list contains FreeBSD/Unix lexicon that is used by the system
32documentation. It makes a great ispell(1) personal dictionary to
33supplement the standard English language dictionary.
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