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1.1     ! root        1: .TH SPELL 1 "12 September 1983"
        !             2: .SH NAME
        !             3: spell, spellin, spellout \- find spelling errors
        !             4: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             5: .B spell
        !             6: [
        !             7: .B \-v
        !             8: ] [
        !             9: .B \-b
        !            10: ] [
        !            11: .B \-x
        !            12: ] [
        !            13: .B \-d
        !            14: hlist ] [
        !            15: .B \-s
        !            16: hstop ] [
        !            17: .B \-h
        !            18: spellhist
        !            19: ] [ file ] ...
        !            20: .PP
        !            21: .B spellin
        !            22: [ list ]
        !            23: .PP
        !            24: .B spellout
        !            25: [
        !            26: .B \-d
        !            27: ] list
        !            28: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            29: .I Spell
        !            30: collects words from the named documents,
        !            31: and looks them up in a spelling list.
        !            32: Words that neither occur among nor are derivable
        !            33: (by applying certain inflections,
        !            34: prefixes or suffixes) from words in the spelling list
        !            35: are printed on the standard output.
        !            36: If no files are named,
        !            37: words are collected from the standard input.
        !            38: .PP
        !            39: .I Spell
        !            40: ignores most
        !            41: .I troff,
        !            42: .I tbl
        !            43: and
        !            44: .IR  eqn (1)
        !            45: constructions.
        !            46: .PP
        !            47: Under the
        !            48: .B \-v
        !            49: option, all words not literally in the spelling list are printed,
        !            50: and plausible derivations from spelling list words are indicated.
        !            51: .PP
        !            52: Under the 
        !            53: .B \-b
        !            54: option, British spelling is checked.
        !            55: Besides preferring
        !            56: .ft I
        !            57: centre, colour, speciality, travelled,
        !            58: .ft R
        !            59: etc.,
        !            60: this option insists upon
        !            61: .I -ise
        !            62: in words like
        !            63: .I standardise,
        !            64: Fowler and the OED to the contrary notwithstanding.
        !            65: .PP
        !            66: Under the 
        !            67: .B \-x
        !            68: option, every plausible stem is printed with `=' for each word.
        !            69: .PP
        !            70: The spelling list is based on many sources.
        !            71: While it is more haphazard than an ordinary
        !            72: dictionary, it is also more effective with
        !            73: proper names and popular technical words.
        !            74: Coverage of
        !            75: the specialized vocabularies of biology,
        !            76: medicine and chemistry is light.
        !            77: .PP
        !            78: The auxiliary files used for the spelling list,
        !            79: stop list, and history file may be specified by
        !            80: arguments following the
        !            81: .BR \-d ,
        !            82: .BR \-s ,
        !            83: and
        !            84: .B \-h
        !            85: options.
        !            86: The default files are indicated below.
        !            87: Copies of all output
        !            88: may be accumulated in the history file.
        !            89: The stop list filters out misspellings (e.g. thier=thy\-y+ier)
        !            90: that would otherwise pass.
        !            91: .PP
        !            92: Two routines help maintain the hash lists used by
        !            93: .I spell.
        !            94: Both expect a set of words, one per line,
        !            95: from the standard input.
        !            96: .I Spellin
        !            97: combines the words from the standard input and the
        !            98: preexisting
        !            99: .I list
        !           100: file and places a new list on the standard output.
        !           101: If no 
        !           102: .I list
        !           103: file is specified, the new list is created from scratch.
        !           104: .I Spellout
        !           105: looks up each word from the standard input and prints
        !           106: on the standard output
        !           107: those that are missing from (or present on, with
        !           108: option
        !           109: .BR \-d )
        !           110: the hashed
        !           111: .I list
        !           112: file.
        !           113: For example, to verify that
        !           114: .I hookey
        !           115: is not on the default spelling list, add it to your own
        !           116: private list, and then use it with
        !           117: .IR spell ,
        !           118: .PP
        !           119: .RS
        !           120: .nf
        !           121: echo  hookey  |  spellout  /usr/dict/hlista
        !           122: echo  hookey  |  spellin  /usr/dict/hlista  >  myhlist
        !           123: spell  \-d  myhlist  huckfinn
        !           124: .RE
        !           125: .SH FILES
        !           126: /usr/dict/hlist[ab]    hashed spelling lists, American & British, default for
        !           127: .B \-d
        !           128: .br
        !           129: /usr/dict/hstop                hashed stop list, default for
        !           130: .B \-s
        !           131: .br
        !           132: /dev/null              history file, default for
        !           133: .B \-h
        !           134: .br
        !           135: /tmp/spell.$$\(**              temporary files
        !           136: .br
        !           137: /usr/lib/spell
        !           138: .br
        !           139: .SH SEE ALSO
        !           140: deroff(1), sort(1), tee(1), sed(1)
        !           141: .SH BUGS
        !           142: The spelling list's coverage is uneven;
        !           143: new installations will probably wish to 
        !           144: monitor the output for several months to gather
        !           145: local additions.
        !           146: .br
        !           147: British spelling was done by an American.

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