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1.1       root        1: .TH DICTION 1 
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: diction \- print wordy sentences
                      4: .br
                      5: explain \- interactive thesaurus for diction
                      6: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      7: .B diction
                      8: [
                      9: .B \-ml
                     10: ] [
                     11: .B \-mm
                     12: ] [
                     13: .B \-n
                     14: ] [
                     15: .B \-f
                     16: pfile ]
                     17: file ...
                     18: .br
                     19: .B explain
                     20: .LP
                     21: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     22: .I Diction
                     23: finds all sentences in a document that contain phrases
                     24: from a data base of bad or wordy diction.
                     25: Each phrase is bracketed with [ ].
                     26: Because
                     27: .I diction
                     28: runs
                     29: .I deroff
                     30: before looking at the text, formatting
                     31: header files should be included as part of the input.
                     32: The default macro package
                     33: .B \-ms
                     34: may be overridden with the flag
                     35: .B \-mm.
                     36: The flag
                     37: .B \-ml
                     38: which causes 
                     39: .B deroff
                     40: to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists of
                     41: non-sentences.
                     42: The user may supply her/his own pattern file to be used in addition to the default file
                     43: with
                     44: .B \-f
                     45: .I pfile.
                     46: If the flag
                     47: .B \-n
                     48: is also supplied the default file will be supressed.
                     49: .PP
                     50: .I Explain
                     51: is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by diction.
                     52: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     53: deroff(1)
                     54: .SH BUGS
                     55: Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause
                     56: incorrect sentence breaks.

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