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            1 .TH SPELL 1
            2 .SH NAME
            3 spell, sprog \- find spelling errors
            4 .SH SYNOPSIS
            5 .B spell
            6 [
            7 .I options
            8 ]
            9 \&...
           10 [
           11 .I file
           12 ]
           13 \&...
           14 .PP
           15 .B sprog
           16 [
           17 .I options
           18 ]
           19 [
           20 .B -f
           21 .I file
           22 ]
           23 .SH DESCRIPTION
           24 .I Spell
           25 looks up words from the named
           26 .I files
           27 (standard input default)
           28 in a spelling list and places
           29 possible misspellings\(emwords 
           30 not sanctioned there\(emon the standard output.
           31 .PP
           32 .I Spell
           33 ignores constructs of
           34 .MR troff (1)
           35 and its standard preprocessors.
           36 It understands these options:
           37 .TP
           38 .B -b
           39 Check British spelling.
           40 .TP
           41 .B -v
           42 Print all words not literally in the spelling list, with
           43 derivations.
           44 .TP
           45 .B -x
           46 Print, marked with
           47 .LR = ,
           48 every stem as it is looked up in the spelling list,
           49 along with its affix classes.
           50 .PP
           51 As a matter of policy, 
           52 .I spell
           53 does not admit multiple spellings of the same word.
           54 Variants that follow general rules are preferred
           55 over those that don't, even when the unruly spelling is
           56 more common.
           57 Thus, in American usage, `modelled', `sizeable', and `judgment' are
           58 rejected in favor of `modeled', `sizable', and `judgement'.
           59 Agglutinated variants are shunned: `crewmember' and `backyard'
           60 cede to `crew member' and  `back yard' (noun) or `back-yard' 
           61 (adjective).
           62 .SH FILES
           63 .TP
           64 .B \*9/lib/amspell
           65 American spelling list
           66 .TP
           67 .B \*9/lib/brspell
           68 British spelling list
           69 .TP
           70 .B \*9/bin/sprog
           71 The actual spelling checker.
           72 It expects one word per line on standard input,
           73 and takes the same arguments as
           74 .IR spell .
           75 .SH SOURCE
           76 .TF \*9/src/cmd/spell
           77 .TP
           78 .B \*9/bin/spell
           79 the script
           80 .TP
           81 .B \*9/src/cmd/spell
           82 source for
           83 .I sprog
           84 .SH SEE ALSO
           85 .MR deroff (1)
           86 .SH BUGS
           87 The heuristics of
           88 .MR deroff (1)
           89 used to excise formatting information are imperfect.
           90 .PP
           91 The spelling list's coverage is uneven;
           92 in particular biology, medicine, and chemistry, and
           93 perforce proper names,
           94 not to mention languages other than English,
           95 are covered very lightly.