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Date:      Fri, 1 Jan 1999 18:21:38 +0100
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/dict web2
Message-ID:  <19990101182138.A23601@panke.de.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <58122.914548313@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Fri, Dec 25, 1998 at 02:11:53AM %2B0100
References:  <19981225113123.Q12346@freebie.lemis.com> <58122.914548313@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On 1998-12-25 02:11:53 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <19981225113123.Q12346@freebie.lemis.com>, Greg Lehey writes:
> >On Thursday, 24 December 1998 at 16:57:03 -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> >>> Agreed.  We're not maintaining a historical document, we're
> >>> maintaining a list of current American spellings.
> >>
> >> We could easily/should add British and Australian spellings too.
> >
> >And a whole lot of others.  Did somebody mention
> >ftp://sable.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/ in this thread?  There's a lot of
> >stuff there, and it is probably worth including.
> 
> STOP!!!!!
> 
> There is general concent in -core that the only reason why Webster
> survives in FreeBSD is because of a couple of dependencies.

Dependencies? The dictionary /usr/share/dict/words 
appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX, 20 years ago.
 
There is no reason to remove it.

--
Wolfram Schneider <wosch@freebsd.org> http://freebsd.org/~w/

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