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Date:      Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:49:47 +1100
From:      Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com>
To:        aunty <aunty@comcen.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: AU/UK/NZ spelling dictionary?
Message-ID:  <38A386DB.76252C95@S1.com>
References:  <20000211143146.A6488@comcen.com.au>

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Hi Sue,

> 
> Is there some way to get a non-USA dictionary, preferably Australian
> English or similar, for users to use with a commandline spelling
> checker such as ispell?
> 
> ISTR reading that the USA-English one we have is the only one without
> copyright hassles. I'd rather pay for a dictionary than present wrongly
> spelled words as checked correct and vice versa.
> 
> Can anyone suggest what my options might be?
> 

Check out ispell(1) (buildhash option) and ispell(4), and also
/usr/share/dict/README and finally
ftp://sable.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/aussie . That should get you out of
mischief ;')

haxxa


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