		[5,24] -- SPELLING CHECKER
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Submitted by:	Chris Doran				Date: January 1987
		Sira Ltd., South Hill, Chislehurst, Kent, BR7 5EH, England.
		Tel: +44 1 467 2636,	Telex: 896649,	  FAX: +44 1 467 6515

Debugged and extended version of the SPELL program by Dave Walesby on the
Warwick 1981 RT-11 SIG tape. This version is conditionalised for assembly for
either RT-11 or RSX-11-M/M-PLUS. A 7000 word English English dictionary is
supplied (SPELL.WRD). 7000 words is about the most you can get in memory at
once on a PDP-11 system.

The %.DIC files give an 84000 word English English * dictionary, but there's no
way you will be able to use it with the SPELL program here! If anyone manages
to fit it into a small enough space, and/or find a fast algorithm for searching
it, I'm all ears. I spent months collecting (mostly American) dictionary files
from the SIG tapes, merged them, and checked/anglicised them against the OED to
produce what you have here, only to find that the VAX tree-structured spelling
checker someone gave me just couldn't handle that many words at a sensible
rate! ABBREV.DIC is a dictionary of common abbreviations, and site-specific
words.

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* "English English" means that words like "anglicise" end "-ise", not "-ize",
which is "British English". At least, those are DEC's definitions, used on the
DECmate; I'm not sure how official they are.
