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Annotation of researchv10no/cmd/spell/README, revision 1.1.1.1

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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