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                      3: spell                        Command                        spell
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                      8: Find spelling errors
                      9: 
                     10: ssppeellll [-aa][-bb][_f_i_l_e ...]
                     11: 
                     12: spell builds  a set of unique words from  a document contained in
                     13: each input file, or the standard input if none.  It writes a list
                     14: of words believed to be misspelled onto the standard output.
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                     16: spell should normally be invoked with the document in the form of
                     17: the input  to the  text formatter  nroff rather than  the output.
                     18: spell deletes  control information  to the formatter  by invoking
                     19: deroff.
                     20: 
                     21: The default dictionary  is for American spelling of English.  The
                     22: -a  option specifies  this dictionary  explicitly.  Under  the -b
                     23: option, British spelling is checked.  This accepts favour, fibre,
                     24: and travelled  rather than  the American spellings  favor, fiber,
                     25: and traveled  for the same  words.  Words ending in  ize are also
                     26: accepted when ending in ise (e.g., digitize, digitise).
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                     28: The dictionary has a reasonably complete coverage of proper names
                     29: as well as technical terms in certain fields.  However, it covers
                     30: some fields  (e.g., computer  science) better than  others (e.g.,
                     31: medicine).
                     32: 
                     33: ***** Files *****
                     34: 
                     35: /uussrr/ddiicctt/cclliissttaa -- Compressed American dictionary
                     36: /uussrr/ddiicctt/cclliissttbb -- Compressed British dictionary
                     37: /uussrr/ddiicctt/ssppeellllhhiisstt -- History file for dictionary maintainer
                     38: /uussrr/lliibb/ssppeellll
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                     40: ***** See Also *****
                     41: 
                     42: commands, deroff, nroff, sort, typo
                     43: 
                     44: ***** Notes *****
                     45: 
                     46: Dictionaries are not provided for languages other than English.
                     47: 
                     48: No dictionary  can be  complete.  You must  add new words  to the
                     49: dictionary to ensure that it fully meets your needs.
                     50: 
                     51: Obscure words (such as opcodes, variable names, etc.) are flagged
                     52: as spelling errors.
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                     54: Because the  data files required for spell  are quite large, they
                     55: might not  be included on COHERENT systems  for machines with in-
                     56: sufficient disk  space.  As a result, the  command might not work
                     57: as expected on all systems.
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