From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Dec 23 17:01:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA04663 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:01:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA04658 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 17:01:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA09831; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:30:32 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA14535; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:30:33 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981224113032.U12346@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:30:32 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: obrien@NUXI.com, FREEBSD-DOC@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spelling question References: <19981223105416.A9470@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19981223105416.A9470@dragon.nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 10:54:16AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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