Re: Re: List of dictionary words
Re: Re: List of dictionary words
- Subject: Re: Re: List of dictionary words
- From: Eric <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 12:41:34 -0700
Thanks, that's what I was looking for. Apologies for the off topic post.
On 8/2/06, email@hidden <email@hidden> wrote:
> I know somwhere in on my Mac there's a file containing a comprehensive
> list of English words, used for spell check I believe, which could be
> accessed via the Terminal. I've used the list before, but now
> couldn't figure out where it is. Could someone enlightenment me to
> its location?
/usr/share/dict
Traditionally you'd use "words", but I in my experience (pre-Tiger)
there are plenty of things in there which aren't words, and plenty of
words which aren't in there. Although we now have web2 and web2a, of
which the README says:
> # $NetBSD: README,v 1.2 1997/03/26 07:14:32 mikel Exp $
> # @(#)README 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
>
> WEB ---- (introduction provided by jaw@riacs)
> -------------------------
>
> Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words
> worth.
> The 1934 copyright has elapsed, according to the supplier. The
> supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as
> assorted
> noun and adverbial phrases. The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.
>
> -- James A. Woods {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw (or jaw@riacs)
Also, words is now just a link to web2. Hopefully that means the
problems I mentioned are long gone.
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