Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:00:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/13895: nonexistent words in /usr/share/dict/web2 Message-ID: <199909221600.JAA74693@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/13895; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: kbyanc@posi.net Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: misc/13895: nonexistent words in /usr/share/dict/web2 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:51:14 -0400 (EDT) <<On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:22:50 -0400 (EDT), kbyanc@posi.net said: > Surely, this is not all of them, but I recently discovered that the > following words cannot be located in any English dictionary I have > access to, but are listed in /usr/share/dict/web2: If they are in web2, it means they were in Webster's Second Unabridged. > acrologic > acrologically These two are attested in the OED. > acrologism The meaning is obvious, I think. > acrologue > acrology These seem to be unrelated, and I can find no attestation. > acromania Obvious. > acromastitis Probably a jargon term. > http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary > and type in any of the above words (the latter being the actual > websters dictionary). That doesn't necessarily prove anything. There are several publishers using the name ``Webster'' for their dictionaries, and in any case words are sometimes removed from non-historical dictionaries. Since the last citation for ``acrologically'' in the OED is from 1932 -- the same year as Webster's Second was published IIRC -- that is probably the explanation. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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