[Ti] Impending speed bumps?

Ondra Soukup ondras at di.cz
Wed Aug 24 13:45:58 PDT 2005


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
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