Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:30:32 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: obrien@NUXI.com, FREEBSD-DOC@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spelling question Message-ID: <19981224113032.U12346@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19981223105416.A9470@dragon.nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 10:54:16AM -0800 References: <19981223105416.A9470@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Wednesday, 23 December 1998 at 10:54:16 -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry to spam this list, but I'm hoping some on this list are > particularly strong in spelling. Is ``corelation'' really an accepted > spelling? Yes, in the SOED. > It words missing? > in my Random House dictionary, WWWebster Dictionary > (http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm), nor Solaris's dict/words. If not, > I want to remove these spellings from our dict/words. > > $ egrep '^(corela|correla)' /usr/share/dict/words > corelate > corelated > corelation > corelative > corelatively > correlatable > correlate > correlated > correlation > correlational > correlative > correlatively > correlativeness > correlativism > correlativity SOED doesn't accept any of the other corel- versions, and it just notes corelate as an alternative (and obviously not exactly mainstream) spelling for correlate, so it's probably safer to remove them all. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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