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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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