WORDS(5) Linux Programmers Manual WORDS(5)
NAME
spanish - a list of spanish words
DESCRIPTION
/usr/share/dict/spanish is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic
list of words, one per line.
AUTHOR
Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors.
FILES
/etc/dictionaries-common/words This is a link to a /usr/share/dict/<lan-
guage> file.
/usr/share/dict/words This is linked to /etc/dictionaries-common/words,
it exists for software compatibility.
The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages,
with name of the language in English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french and
/usr/share/dict/danish contain respectively lists of French and Danish
words if they exist. Such lists should be coded using the ISO 8859
character set encoding.
SEE ALSO
ispell(1).
History
The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number
of sources.
Linux 4 June 1994 WORDS(5)
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