From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Sep 22 9: 0: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25D7814F9B for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:00:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id JAA74693; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:00:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:00:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199909221600.JAA74693@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Garrett Wollman Subject: misc/13895: nonexistent words in /usr/share/dict/web2 Reply-To: Garrett Wollman Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR misc/13895; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Garrett Wollman 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) < 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