american-english

american-english(5) Users' Manual american-english(5)

NAME

   american-english - a list of English words

DESCRIPTION

   /usr/share/dict/american-english 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 respec‐
   tively 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>.

Debian 16 June 2003 american-english(5)