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Re: Reasonable assignment for a third grader?
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Fri, 13 Apr 2001 12:10:27 GMT
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In article <slrn9dccj3.hnn.mattdm@jadzia.bu.edu>,
Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote:
> /usr/dict/words on many linux distributions is terrible.
On most anything, actually. It's really not meant to be a dictionary, even
though the directory looks like it. Sometimes a random word comes in handy,
though.
> Here's an interesting test:
> grep herbivore /usr/dict/words
> grep omnivore /usr/dict/words
> grep carnivore /usr/dict/words
None of them are found in the sloaris /usr/dict/words. :)
Besides, in this age of political correctness, it wouldn't surprise me if
the word carnivore got abolished somewhere in there. Carnivores are just
_too_ violent, y'know.
-JDF
--
J.D. Forinash ,-.
foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu ( <
The more you learn, the better your luck gets. `-'
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