From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 1 13:51:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.240.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B5441547D for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 13:51:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.2/8.9.1) id NAA74394; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 13:51:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mph) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 13:51:17 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt To: "Ben J. Cohen" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FreeBSD Dictionary Message-ID: <19990301135117.A74364@wopr.caltech.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Ben J. Cohen on Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 09:24:10PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 09:24:10PM +0000, Ben J. Cohen wrote: > I have been using it with a friend to try and solve crosswords and it > hasn't been too brilliant---for instance it doesn't have the words > "Internet" or "cheapskate". (Of course, our crossword solving skill > aren't brilliant either.) Note the README: # 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. The lack of "Internet" in a 1934 dictionary should not be surprising. We have that dictionary because its copyright expired, not because anyone donated it. I don't know whether there are any more recent or more complete dictionaries available for free. -- Matthew Hunt * Science rules. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message