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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 (words 
        !            22: that occur in neither and are not plausibly derivable
        !            23: from the former) are placed on the standard output.
        !            24: .PP
        !            25: .I Spell
        !            26: ignores constructs of
        !            27: .IR troff (1)
        !            28: and its standard preprocessors,
        !            29: or 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 on standard error, marked with
        !            42: .LR = ,
        !            43: every stem as it is looked up in the spelling list,
        !            44: along with its affix classes.
        !            45: Typically used for maintenance.
        !            46: .TP
        !            47: .B -c
        !            48: .br
        !            49: .ns
        !            50: .TP
        !            51: .B -C
        !            52: Input is one word per line.
        !            53: Output is a single byte per word, delivered immediately:
        !            54: .L -
        !            55: if the word is rejected, 
        !            56: .L +
        !            57: if the word is accepted under
        !            58: .BR -c ,
        !            59: and a digit if the word is accepted under
        !            60: .BR -C .
        !            61: Digit zero indicates a word known directly; larger
        !            62: numbers indicate words derived by increasingly
        !            63: elaborate paths.
        !            64: Typically used by other programs piping queries to spell.
        !            65: .PP
        !            66: The private list, by default
        !            67: .FR $HOME/lib/spelldict ,
        !            68: is arranged one word per line.
        !            69: .PP
        !            70: Pertinent files may be specified by
        !            71: environment variables, listed below with their default settings.
        !            72: To help in gathering local vocabularies, copies of all output
        !            73: are accumulated in the history file, if it exists and is writable.
        !            74: .PP
        !            75: As a matter of policy, 
        !            76: .I spell
        !            77: does not admit multiple spellings of the same word.
        !            78: Variants that follow general rules are preferred over
        !            79: over those that don't, even when the unruly spelling is
        !            80: more common.
        !            81: Thus, in American usage, `modeled', `sizable', and `judgement' are
        !            82: preferred to `modelled', `sizeable', and `judgment'.
        !            83: Agglutinated variants are shunned: `crew member' and `back yard'
        !            84: (noun) or `back-yard' (adjective) are preferred to
        !            85: `crewmember' and  `backyard'.
        !            86: .SH FILES
        !            87: .TF /usr/lib/spell/spellhist
        !            88: .TP
        !            89: .F /usr/lib/spell/amspell
        !            90: spelling list, compressed
        !            91: .RB ( D_SPELL )
        !            92: .TP
        !            93: .F /usr/lib/spell/brspell
        !            94: British spelling list
        !            95: .TP
        !            96: .F /usr/lib/spell/spellhist
        !            97: history file
        !            98: .RB ( H_SPELL )
        !            99: .TP
        !           100: .F $HOME/lib/spelldict
        !           101: private list
        !           102: .RB ( A_SPELL )
        !           103: .TP
        !           104: .F /usr/lib/spell/sprog
        !           105: the main routine
        !           106: .RB ( P_SPELL )
        !           107: .TP
        !           108: .BR deroff " (or " delatex )
        !           109: (or
        !           110: .FR delatex )
        !           111: for removing punctuation and 
        !           112: .IR troff (1)
        !           113: constructs
        !           114: .RB ( DEROFF )
        !           115: .SH SEE ALSO
        !           116: .IR dict (7),
        !           117: .IR deroff (1),
        !           118: .IR wwb (1)
        !           119: .SH BUGS
        !           120: Words in a private list are recognized only by
        !           121: exact match, including capitalization and affixing.
        !           122: .br
        !           123: The heuristics of
        !           124: .IR deroff (1)
        !           125: and
        !           126: .IR delatex ,
        !           127: used to excise formatting information, are imperfect.
        !           128: .br
        !           129: The spelling list's coverage is uneven;
        !           130: in particular biology, medicine, and chemistry, and
        !           131: perforce proper names,
        !           132: are covered very lightly.
        !           133: .br
        !           134: British spelling was done by an American.

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