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1.1     ! root        1: .TH SPELL 1
        !             2: .CT 1 writing_aids 
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: spell \- find spelling errors
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B spell
        !             7: [
        !             8: .I option
        !             9: ]
        !            10: ...
        !            11: [
        !            12: .I file
        !            13: ]
        !            14: ...
        !            15: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            16: .I Spell
        !            17: looks up words from the named
        !            18: .I files
        !            19: (standard input default)
        !            20: in a public spelling list and in a private list.
        !            21: Possible misspellings\(emwords 
        !            22: that occur in neither and are not plausibly derivable
        !            23: from the former\(emare placed on the standard output.
        !            24: .PP
        !            25: .I Spell
        !            26: ignores constructs of
        !            27: .IR troff (1)
        !            28: and its standard preprocessors,
        !            29: as well as constructs of
        !            30: .IR tex (1).
        !            31: It understands these options:
        !            32: .TP
        !            33: .B -b
        !            34: Check British spelling.
        !            35: .TP
        !            36: .B -v
        !            37: Print all words not literally in the spelling list, with
        !            38: derivations.
        !            39: .TP
        !            40: .B -x
        !            41: Print, marked with
        !            42: .LR = ,
        !            43: every stem as it is looked up in the spelling list,
        !            44: along with its affix classes.
        !            45: .PP
        !            46: The private list, by default
        !            47: .FR $HOME/lib/spelldict ,
        !            48: is arranged one word per line.
        !            49: .PP
        !            50: Pertinent files may be specified by
        !            51: environment variables, listed below with their default settings.
        !            52: Copies of all output
        !            53: are accumulated in the history file, if it exists and is writable.
        !            54: .PP
        !            55: As a matter of policy, 
        !            56: .I spell
        !            57: does not admit multiple spellings of the same word.
        !            58: Variants that follow general rules are preferred over
        !            59: over those that don't, even when the unruly spelling is
        !            60: more common.
        !            61: Thus, in American usage, `modelled', `sizeable', and `judgment' are
        !            62: rejected in favor of `modeled', `sizable', and `judgement'.
        !            63: Agglutinated variants are shunned: `crewmember' and `backyard'
        !            64: cede to `crew member' and  `back yard' (noun) or `back-yard' 
        !            65: (adjective).
        !            66: .SH FILES
        !            67: .TF /usr/dict/spellhist
        !            68: .TP
        !            69: .F /usr/dict/amspell
        !            70: American spelling list, hashed
        !            71: .RB ( D_SPELL )
        !            72: .TP
        !            73: .F /usr/dict/brspell
        !            74: British spelling list
        !            75: .TP
        !            76: .F /usr/dict/spellhist
        !            77: history file
        !            78: .RB ( H_SPELL )
        !            79: .TP
        !            80: .F $HOME/lib/spelldict
        !            81: private list
        !            82: .RB ( A_SPELL )
        !            83: .TP
        !            84: .F /usr/dict/spellprog
        !            85: the main routine
        !            86: .RB ( P_SPELL )
        !            87: .TP
        !            88: .F deroff
        !            89: (or
        !            90: .FR delatex )
        !            91: for removing punctuation and 
        !            92: .IR troff (1)
        !            93: constructs
        !            94: .RB ( DEROFF )
        !            95: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            96: .IR dict (7),
        !            97: .IR deroff (1),
        !            98: .IR wwb (1)
        !            99: .SH BUGS
        !           100: For efficiency spell uses a probabilistic method,
        !           101: which has a small chance (<0.001) of accepting a
        !           102: random string as a word.
        !           103: .br
        !           104: The heuristics of
        !           105: .IR deroff (1)
        !           106: and
        !           107: .IR delatex ,
        !           108: used to excise formatting information, are imperfect.
        !           109: .br
        !           110: The spelling list's coverage is uneven;
        !           111: in particular biology, medicine, and chemistry, and
        !           112: perforce proper names,
        !           113: are covered very lightly.
        !           114: New installations may wish to 
        !           115: monitor output (with
        !           116: .FR /usr/dict/spellhist )
        !           117: to catch local additions.
        !           118: .br
        !           119: British spelling was done by an American.

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