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1.1     ! root        1: There are five word lists, which are sorted together:
        !             2: 
        !             3:        list    the main corpus of words
        !             4:        british british spellings, where different from
        !             5:        american
        !             6:        local   a collection of words useful in our own
        !             7:                lab, but not generally; mostly names and
        !             8:                jargon
        !             9:        stop    everything with code "s"
        !            10: 
        !            11: The word lists are annotated with affix codes, vaguely
        !            12: related to parts of speech.  The codes are
        !            13: 
        !            14:        a       adjective
        !            15:        adv     adverb
        !            16:        comp    comparative & superlative
        !            17:        d       don't suffix
        !            18:        ed      takes -ed
        !            19:        er      takes -er
        !            20:        in      takes in- as a prefix instead of un-
        !            21:        ion     takes -ion
        !            22:        man     takes -man
        !            23:        ms      "monosyllable"; double final consonant on affixing
        !            24:        n       noun
        !            25:        na      noun affix, e.g. -ism
        !            26:        nopref  do not prefix
        !            27:        pc      proper name or collective (don't pluralize)
        !            28:        s       stop; an unwanted word that could sneak thru
        !            29:        v       verb
        !            30:        va      verb affix, e.g. -ize
        !            31:        vi      irregular verb (no -ed)
        !            32:        y       can be made into adjective with -y
        !            33: 
        !            34: The allowable affixes for each code are given in code.h
        !            35: 
        !            36: It is a good idea to list codes in the same standard order
        !            37: in which they print under option -x:
        !            38: 
        !            39:        n,pc,v,vi,ed,a,er,comp,d,na,adv,ion,va,man,nopref,ms,in,y
        !            40: 
        !            41:        v = vi+ed
        !            42:        s is incompatible with everything

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