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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
March 15, 2005 09:54
Subject:
Re: s/true/better name/
Message ID:
20050315175357.GA58942@plum.flirble.org
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:57:57PM +0100, Juerd wrote:

> And re its spelling, that's a very good feature, because it'll slowly
> teach me how to spell this word. And when I know how to spell it, I can
> use it on IRC without dict(1)ing to see if I remembered correctly. This
> will eventually save me hours! :)

One problem you may find with dict is that one common misspelling, "wether",
is also a valid English word, which any decent word list should contain.
(It's a castrated ram)

Nicholas Clark

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