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

    NAME
         spell, spellin, spellout - find spelling errors

    SYNOPSIS
         spell [ -v ] [ -b ] [ -x ] [ -d hlist ] [ -s hstop ] [ -h
         spellhist ] [ file ] ...

         spellin [ list ]

         spellout [ -d ] list

    DESCRIPTION
         Spell collects words from the named documents, and looks
         them up in a spelling list.  Words that neither occur among
         nor are derivable (by applying certain inflections, prefixes
         or suffixes) from words in the spelling list are printed on
         the standard output.  If no files are named, words are col-
         lected from the standard input.

         Spell ignores most troff, tbl and eqn(1) constructions.

         Under the -v option, all words not literally in the spelling
         list are printed, and plausible derivations from spelling
         list words are indicated.

         Under the -b option, British spelling is checked.	Besides
         preferring centre, colour, speciality, travelled, etc., this
         option insists upon -ise in words like standardise, Fowler
         and the OED to the contrary notwithstanding.

         Under the -x option, every plausible stem is printed with
         `=' for each word.

         The spelling list is based on many sources.  While it is
         more haphazard than an ordinary dictionary, it is also more
         effective with proper names and popular technical words.
         Coverage of the specialized vocabularies of biology, medi-
         cine and chemistry is light.

         The auxiliary files used for the spelling list, stop list,
         and history file may be specified by arguments following the
         -d, -s, and -h options.  The default files are indicated
         below.  Copies of all output may be accumulated in the his-
         tory file.  The stop list filters out misspellings (e.g.
         thier=thy-y+ier) that would otherwise pass.

         Two routines help maintain the hash lists used by spell.
         Both expect a set of words, one per line, from the standard
         input.  Spellin combines the words from the standard input
         and the preexisting list file and places a new list on the
         standard output.  If no list file is specified, the new list
         is created from scratch.  Spellout looks up each word from

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

         the standard input and prints on the standard output those
         that are missing from (or present on, with option -d) the
         hashed list file.	For example, to verify that hookey is not
         on the default spelling list, add it to your own private
         list, and then use it with spell,

    	  echo	hookey	|  spellout  /usr/dict/hlista
    	  echo	hookey	|  spellin  /usr/dict/hlista  >  myhlist
    	  spell  -d  myhlist  huckfinn

    FILES
         /usr/dict/hlist[ab] hashed spelling lists, American & Brit-
         ish, default for -d
         /usr/dict/hstop	      hashed stop list, default for -s
         /dev/null	    history file, default for -h
         /tmp/spell.$$*	 temporary files
         /usr/libexec/spell

    SEE ALSO
         deroff(1), sort(1), tee(1), sed(1)

    BUGS
         The spelling list's coverage is uneven; new installations
         will probably wish to monitor the output for several months
         to gather local additions.
         British spelling was done by an American.

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