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    DICTION(1)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual	       DICTION(1)

    NAME
         diction, explain - print wordy sentences; thesaurus for dic-
         tion

    SYNOPSIS
         diction [ -ml ] [ -mm ] [ -n ] [ -f pfile ] file ...
         explain

    DESCRIPTION
         Diction finds all sentences in a document that contain
         phrases from a data base of bad or wordy diction.	Each
         phrase is bracketed with [ ].  Because diction runs deroff
         before looking at the text, formatting header files should
         be included as part of the input.	The default macro package
         -ms may be overridden with the flag -mm. The flag -ml which
         causes deroff to skip lists, should be used if the document
         contains many lists of non-sentences.  The user may supply
         her/his own pattern file to be used in addition to the
         default file with -f pfile. If the flag -n is also supplied
         the default file will be suppressed.

         Explain is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by
         diction.

    SEE ALSO
         deroff(1)

    BUGS
         Use of non-standard formatting macros may cause incorrect
         sentence breaks.  In particular, diction doesn't grok -me.

    Printed 11/26/99	  May 10, 1986				1

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