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1.1       root        1: .TH DICTION 1  "18 January 1983"
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: diction,explain \- print wordy sentences; thesaurus for diction
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B diction
                      6: [
                      7: .B \-ml
                      8: ] [
                      9: .B \-mm
                     10: ] [
                     11: .B \-n
                     12: ] [
                     13: .B \-f
                     14: pfile ]
                     15: file ...
                     16: .br
                     17: .B explain
                     18: .LP
                     19: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     20: .I Diction
                     21: finds all sentences in a document that contain phrases
                     22: from a data base of bad or wordy diction.
                     23: Each phrase is bracketed with [ ].
                     24: Because
                     25: .I diction
                     26: runs
                     27: .I deroff
                     28: before looking at the text, formatting
                     29: header files should be included as part of the input.
                     30: The default macro package
                     31: .B \-ms
                     32: may be overridden with the flag
                     33: .B \-mm.
                     34: The flag
                     35: .B \-ml
                     36: which causes 
                     37: .B deroff
                     38: to skip lists, should be used if the document contains many lists of
                     39: non-sentences.
                     40: The user may supply her/his own pattern file to be used in addition to the default file
                     41: with
                     42: .B \-f
                     43: .I pfile.
                     44: If the flag
                     45: .B \-n
                     46: is also supplied the default file will be suppressed.
                     47: .PP
                     48: .I Explain
                     49: is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by diction.
                     50: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     51: deroff(1)
                     52: .SH BUGS
                     53: Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause
                     54: incorrect sentence breaks.
                     55: In particular,
                     56: .I diction
                     57: doesn't grok
                     58: .B \-me.

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