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

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