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Article #731Re: Non-word "accreditate" in /usr/dict/words
From: Andrey K. Yeatts
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1988 17:23
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1988 17:23
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In article <1693@desint.UUCP>, geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
| While working on ispell (yes, it's coming, but not real soon) I stumbled
| across a non-word in my /usr/dict/words file. The verb form of
| "accreditation" is "accredit," despite the best efforts of some people
| to change it. If you're a stickler for accuracy, like me, edit
| /usr/dict/words to change that entry to "accreditation".
| Geoff Kuenning geoff@ITcorp.com {uunet,trwrb}!desint!geoff
or else add in one of my favorites: "orientate," if only for the
completifaction of verbiation of your lexilogical database.
(Excusify me for being in a non-linear mode of epistolization :=)
--
Andrey Yeatts Dept. of Computer Science
andrey@arizona.edu Univ. of Arizona
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ncar!noao!arizona!andrey From: andrey@arizona.edu (Andrey K. Yeatts) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Non-word "accreditate" in /usr/dict/words Message-ID: <4501@megaron.arizona.edu> Date: 25 Mar 88 17:23:25 GMT References: <1693@desint.UUCP> Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson Lines: 18 Summary: or else..