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                      3: .TH DICTION 1 "May 10, 1986"
                      4: .AT 3
                      5: .SH NAME
                      6: diction, explain \- print wordy sentences; thesaurus for diction
                      7: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      8: .B diction
                      9: [
                     10: .B \-ml
                     11: ] [
                     12: .B \-mm
                     13: ] [
                     14: .B \-n
                     15: ] [
                     16: .B \-f
                     17: pfile ]
                     18: file ...
                     19: .br
                     20: .B explain
                     21: .LP
                     22: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     23: .I Diction
                     24: finds all sentences in a document that contain phrases
                     25: from a data base of bad or wordy diction.
                     26: Each phrase is bracketed with [ ].
                     27: Because
                     28: .I diction
                     29: runs
                     30: .I deroff
                     31: before looking at the text, formatting
                     32: header files should be included as part of the input.
                     33: The default macro package
                     34: .B \-ms
                     35: may be overridden with the flag
                     36: .B \-mm.
                     37: The flag
                     38: .B \-ml
                     39: which causes 
                     40: .B deroff
                     41: to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists of
                     42: non-sentences.
                     43: The user may supply her/his own pattern file to be used in addition to the default file
                     44: with
                     45: .B \-f
                     46: .I pfile.
                     47: If the flag
                     48: .B \-n
                     49: is also supplied the default file will be suppressed.
                     50: .PP
                     51: .I Explain
                     52: is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by diction.
                     53: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     54: deroff(1)
                     55: .SH BUGS
                     56: Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause
                     57: incorrect sentence breaks.
                     58: In particular,
                     59: .I diction
                     60: doesn't grok
                     61: .B \-me.

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