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Date:      Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:30:32 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        obrien@NUXI.com, FREEBSD-DOC@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: spelling question
Message-ID:  <19981224113032.U12346@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981223105416.A9470@dragon.nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 10:54:16AM -0800
References:  <19981223105416.A9470@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Wednesday, 23 December 1998 at 10:54:16 -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry to spam this list, but I'm hoping some on this list are
> particularly strong in spelling.  Is ``corelation'' really an accepted
> spelling?

Yes, in the SOED.

> It

words missing?

> in my Random House dictionary, WWWebster Dictionary
> (http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm), nor Solaris's dict/words.  If not,
> I want to remove these spellings from our dict/words.
>
>     $ egrep '^(corela|correla)' /usr/share/dict/words
>     corelate
>     corelated
>     corelation
>     corelative
>     corelatively
>     correlatable
>     correlate
>     correlated
>     correlation
>     correlational
>     correlative
>     correlatively
>     correlativeness
>     correlativism
>     correlativity

SOED doesn't accept any of the other corel- versions, and it just
notes corelate as an alternative (and obviously not exactly
mainstream) spelling for correlate, so it's probably safer to remove
them all.

Greg
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