NAME

       british-english-huge - a list of English words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/british-english-huge is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per
       line.

FILES

       There  may be any number of word lists in /usr/share/dict/.  /etc/dictionaries-common/words is a symbolic
       link to the currently-chosen /usr/share/dict/<language> file.  /usr/share/dict/words is a  symbolic  link
       to  /etc/dictionaries-common/words,  and  is  the name by which other software should refer to the system
       word list.  See select-default-wordlist(8) for more information, and/or to  change  the  currently-chosen
       word list.

       The  directory  /usr/share/dict  can  contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language in
       English, e.g., /usr/share/dict/french and /usr/share/dict/danish contain respectively lists of French and
       Danish words if they exist.  Such lists should be coded using the ISO 8859-1 character set encoding.

SEE ALSO

       ispell(1), select-default-wordlist(8), and the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

HISTORY

       The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number of sources.

       The system word list used to be /usr/dict/words.  For compatibility, software should check that  location
       if /usr/share/dict/words does not exist.

AUTHOR

       Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors.  The Debian English word lists are built from
       the  SCOWL  (Spell-  Checker  Oriented  Word  Lists)  package,  whose  upstream  editor is Kevin Atkinson
       <kevina@users.sourceforge.net>.

Debian                                            16 June 2003                           british-english-huge(5)