He's talking about "I simply selected "acolyte" and had Tiger look it up in the dictionary for me." Lookup, explanation.. On Aug 24, 2005, at 10:17 PM, ~flipper wrote: > Ondra Soukup wrote: > > >> Which UNIX system has such titles as Oxford dictionary ? >> > > they don't use proprietary dictionaries, just lists of words, > hundreds of thousands, and names, great for big indutrial spell- > checking. The word list is based on Webster's Second International > (copyright lapsed in 1934, so, it's 'open' now) (234,936 words). > Then there's the hyphenated dict (web2a), which includes nouns and > adverbial phrases. > > Need a reference for names? Ha ha, you cannot do better than the > 'propernames' dict (same directory as others) > > Have a look at /usr/share/dict > > Tip: don't open the files in Finder, too many lines/items, use a > text editor (tex-edit, BBEdit, Rixedit, jEdit, etc) > > we're talking major league spell-checking. you want etymology? grab > a proprietary dictionary. > > ~flipper > _______________________________________________ > Titanium mailing list > Titanium at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/titanium > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >