bionic (5) canadian-english-insane.5.gz

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NAME

       canadian-english-insane - a list of English words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/canadian-english-insane  is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one
       per line.

FILES

       There may be any number of word lists in /usr/share/dict/.  /etc/dictionaries-common/words is a  symbolic
       link  to  the currently-chosen /usr/share/dict/<language> file.  /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link
       to /etc/dictionaries-common/words, and is the name by which other software should  refer  to  the  system
       word  list.   See  select-default-wordlist(8) for more information, and/or to change the currently-chosen
       word list.

       The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with name  of  the  language  in
       English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french and /usr/share/dict/danish contain respectively lists of French and
       Danish words if they exist.  Such lists should be coded using the ISO 8859-1 character set encoding.

SEE ALSO

       ispell(1), select-default-wordlist(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

HISTORY

       The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.

       The system word list used to be /usr/dict/words.  For compatibility, software should check that  location
       if /usr/share/dict/words does not exist.

AUTHOR

       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
       <kevina@users.sourceforge.net>.