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Subject: nonexistent words in /usr/share/dict/web2
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>Number:         13895
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       nonexistent words in /usr/share/dict/web2
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Sep 22 08:30:00 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Tue May 30 20:12:19 PDT 2000
>Last-Modified:  Tue May 30 20:12:36 PDT 2000
>Originator:     Kelly Yancey
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:

	Surely, this is not all of them, but I recently discovered that the
	following words cannot be located in any English dictionary I have
	access to, but are listed in /usr/share/dict/web2:

		acrologic
		acrologically
		acrologism
		acrologue
		acrology
		acromania
		acromastitis

>How-To-Repeat:

	Look the words up in a dictionary or visit either
		http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict or
		http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
	and type in any of the above words (the latter being the actual
	websters dictionary).

>Fix:

	Remove the words from the file :)


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To: kbyanc@posi.net
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: misc/13895: nonexistent words in /usr/share/dict/web2
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:51:14 -0400 (EDT)

 <<On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:22:50 -0400 (EDT), kbyanc@posi.net said:
 
 > 	Surely, this is not all of them, but I recently discovered that the
 > 	following words cannot be located in any English dictionary I have
 > 	access to, but are listed in /usr/share/dict/web2:
 
 If they are in web2, it means they were in Webster's Second
 Unabridged.
 
 > 		acrologic
 > 		acrologically
 
 These two are attested in the OED.
 
 > 		acrologism
 
 The meaning is obvious, I think.
 
 > 		acrologue
 > 		acrology
 
 These seem to be unrelated, and I can find no attestation.
 
 > 		acromania
 
 Obvious.
 
 > 		acromastitis
 
 Probably a jargon term.
 
 
 > 		http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
 > 	and type in any of the above words (the latter being the actual
 > 	websters dictionary).
 
 That doesn't necessarily prove anything.  There are several publishers
 using the name ``Webster'' for their dictionaries, and in any case
 words are sometimes removed from non-historical dictionaries.  Since
 the last citation for ``acrologically'' in the OED is from 1932 -- the
 same year as Webster's Second was published IIRC -- that is probably
 the explanation.
 
 -GAWollman
 
 --
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 wollman@lcs.mit.edu  | O Siem / The fires of freedom 
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 MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA|                     - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick
 

From: "Kelly Yancey" <kbyanc@alcnet.com>
To: <freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>
Cc: <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: misc/13895: nonexistent words in /usr/share/dict/web2
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:30:46 -0400

   I have since found acromania, acromegalic, acrologue, and acrology in an
 old printed dictionary.
 
   I still cannot find acrologic, or any variation thereof. If the only
 source is the OED, I can't help but wonder if this is a variation between
 American and the Queen's English. I won't pretend to be knowledgable on the
 subject, I'm just reporting what I have found. Given that
 /usr/share/dict/README specifically states:
 	Note that FreeBSD is not maintaining a historical document, we're
 	maintaining a list of current [American] English spellings.
   If it is not current American English, I still assert they should be
 removed.
 
   As for the word I reported: acromastitis, if it is jargon, then either it
 should be removed, or a whole bunch of missing words are begging to be added
 (such as pixel, pixelate, pixelated).
 
   Kelly
  ~kbyanc@posi.net~
   FreeBSD - The Power To Serve - http://www.freebsd.org/
   Join Team FreeBSD - http://www.posi.net/freebsd/Team-FreeBSD/
 
 

From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@alcnet.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/13895: nonexistent words in /usr/share/dict/web2
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:44:12 -0500

 On Wed, Sep 22, 1999, Kelly Yancey wrote:
 >    As for the word I reported: acromastitis, if it is jargon, then either it
 >  should be removed, or a whole bunch of missing words are begging to be added
 >  (such as pixel, pixelate, pixelated).
 
    I've got a dictionary here that has "pixel" as an entry.  It
 is published by "Lexicon Publishing" and is titled _The New
 Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language_.
 
 -- 
 |Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
 |That does not compute.
 `----------------------------------
 

From: Kelly Yancey <kbyanc@posi.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/13895: nonexistent words in /usr/share/dict/web2
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 22:16:49 -0400 (EDT)

   Please close this PR. It was a very minor 'problem' and one no one is
 interested in pursuing it.
 
   Kelly
 
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: nrahlstr 
State-Changed-When: Tue May 30 20:12:19 PDT 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
Closed at originators request. 


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