american-english-large(5)

NAME
american-english-large - a list of English words

DESCRIPTION
/usr/share/dict/american-english-large is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per line.

FILES
The directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages. /usr/share/dict/words is a symbolic link to the currently-chosen /usr/share/dict/<language> file.

Word lists for other languages may be added using the English name for that language, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french, /usr/share/dict/danish, etc. These should, if possible, use an ISO 8859 character set which is appropriate for the language in question; if possible the Latin1 (ISO 8859-1) character set should be used (this is often not possible).

SEE ALSO
ispell(1), look(1), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

HISTORY
The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.

The system word list used to be /usr/dict/words. For compatibility, software should check that location if /usr/share/dict/words does not exist.

AUTHOR
Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors.

This English word lists are built from the SCOWL (Spell-Checker Oriented Word Lists) package, whose upstream editor is Kevin Atkinson <kevina@users.sourceforge.net>.