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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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