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.