/usr/share/dict/american-english
is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per
line.
FILES
There may be any number of word lists in /usr/share/dict/.
/etc/dictionaries-common/words
is a symbolic link to the currently-chosen
/usr/share/dict/<language>
file.
/usr/share/dict/words
is a symbolic link to
/etc/dictionaries-common/words,
and is the name by which other software should refer to the
system word list.
See
select-default-wordlist(8)
for more information, and/or to change the currently-chosen word list.
The directory
/usr/share/dict
can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language
in English, e.g.,
/usr/share/dict/french
and
/usr/share/dict/danish
contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist.
Such lists should be coded using the ISO 8859-1 character set encoding.
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.
The Debian English word lists are built from the SCOWL (Spell-
Checker Oriented Word Lists) package, whose upstream editor is
Kevin Atkinson <kevina@users.sourceforge.net>.
