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Date:      Wed, 22 Sep 1999 15:40:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Kelly Yancey" <kbyanc@alcnet.com>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: misc/13895: nonexistent words in /usr/share/dict/web2
Message-ID:  <199909222240.PAA12132@freefall.freebsd.org>

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

From: "Kelly Yancey" <kbyanc@alcnet.com>
To: <freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>
Cc: <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: misc/13895: nonexistent words in /usr/share/dict/web2
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:30:46 -0400

   I have since found acromania, acromegalic, acrologue, and acrology in an
 old printed dictionary.
 
   I still cannot find acrologic, or any variation thereof. If the only
 source is the OED, I can't help but wonder if this is a variation between
 American and the Queen's English. I won't pretend to be knowledgable on the
 subject, I'm just reporting what I have found. Given that
 /usr/share/dict/README specifically states:
 	Note that FreeBSD is not maintaining a historical document, we're
 	maintaining a list of current [American] English spellings.
   If it is not current American English, I still assert they should be
 removed.
 
   As for the word I reported: acromastitis, if it is jargon, then either it
 should be removed, or a whole bunch of missing words are begging to be added
 (such as pixel, pixelate, pixelated).
 
   Kelly
  ~kbyanc@posi.net~
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