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Date:      Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:00:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   misc/13895: nonexistent words in /usr/share/dict/web2
Message-ID:  <199909221600.JAA74693@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR misc/13895; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To: kbyanc@posi.net
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: misc/13895: nonexistent words in /usr/share/dict/web2
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:51:14 -0400 (EDT)

 <<On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:22:50 -0400 (EDT), kbyanc@posi.net said:
 
 > 	Surely, this is not all of them, but I recently discovered that the
 > 	following words cannot be located in any English dictionary I have
 > 	access to, but are listed in /usr/share/dict/web2:
 
 If they are in web2, it means they were in Webster's Second
 Unabridged.
 
 > 		acrologic
 > 		acrologically
 
 These two are attested in the OED.
 
 > 		acrologism
 
 The meaning is obvious, I think.
 
 > 		acrologue
 > 		acrology
 
 These seem to be unrelated, and I can find no attestation.
 
 > 		acromania
 
 Obvious.
 
 > 		acromastitis
 
 Probably a jargon term.
 
 
 > 		http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
 > 	and type in any of the above words (the latter being the actual
 > 	websters dictionary).
 
 That doesn't necessarily prove anything.  There are several publishers
 using the name ``Webster'' for their dictionaries, and in any case
 words are sometimes removed from non-historical dictionaries.  Since
 the last citation for ``acrologically'' in the OED is from 1932 -- the
 same year as Webster's Second was published IIRC -- that is probably
 the explanation.
 
 -GAWollman
 
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