From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 1 13:24:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk (mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3F1D154A5 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 13:24:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bjc23@cam.ac.uk) Received: from bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.193.197]) by mauve.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #3) id 10HaAf-0003ul-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 21:24:13 +0000 Received: from bjc23 by bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Postman Pat (and his black and white cat)) id 10HaAe-0001bH-00; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 21:24:12 +0000 Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 21:24:10 +0000 (GMT) From: "Ben J. Cohen" X-Sender: bjc23@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk Reply-To: bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: The FreeBSD Dictionary Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! How good is the FreeBSD (Webster) dictionary, /usr/share/dict/words? I have been using it with a friend to try and solve crosswords and it hasn't been too brilliant---for instance it doesn't have the words "Internet" or "cheapskate". (Of course, our crossword solving skill aren't brilliant either.) Is the Webster dictionary out of date? What is the choice of free dictionaries available? In any case, I do know that it is an American English dictionary; is there a British English dictionary available? (Or a set of diffs---this could be put in the Ports collection.) -- Thanks, Ben. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message