NAME

       french - a list of french words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/french is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.

FILES

       /etc/alternatives/dictionary    is    a    symbolic    link   to   a   /usr/share/dict/<language>   file.
       /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/dictionary, and is the name by which  other
       software should refer to the system word list.  See update-alternatives(8) for more information.

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

SEE ALSO

       ispell(1), update-alternatives(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

HISTORY

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

AUTHOR

       Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors.

Linux                                             29 Sept 1998                                          WORDS(5)