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Unix comes with a 'spell' utility complete with a file of
correctly spelled words, and a file of derived words which
look plausible to the 'spell' program, but are not. But
the lists are not as complete as one would like.
Here are some routines for augmenting the released spelling lists,
and using them with the spell-routine.
Commands:
learn_word ... Learn correct spelling of a word or words.
bad_word ... Learn that a word which might be derived from
spell's spelling rules is in fact misspelled.
spell ... Like spell, but uses the augmented lists.
I've also included 'words' and 'stop' files of words which have come
up in my writing over the past few months. There's only one word in the
stop-list: 'primative', which I suppose it derives as 'prima' + 'tive'.
The correct spelling is 'primitive', which is in the standard list.
The 'words' list has seventy-eight so far, some of which may not be suitable
to all occasions.