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Re: Ideas for renaming non-GNU ispell

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From: James Fortune
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1993 03:46
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In article <1993Jun2.184117.12151@cs.ucla.edu> geoff@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Geoffrey Kuenning) writes:
>With the release of GNU ispell 4.0, it has become clear to me that
>people are going to become confused about the two independent versions
>of that program unless one of them is renamed.  For historical reasons
>(i.e., my version is based on that by Pace Willisson), I feel that the
>GNU version should have the rights to the name "ispell."  This leaves
>me with the task of picking a new name.

Perhaps something like spill.  It has the ``i'' and makes fun of the problem
of spell checkers not catching mistakes that form other words. :-) :-)
It also seems representative of the act of making a mistake.

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From: jafortun@vela.acs.oakland.edu (James Fortune)
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Subject: Re: Ideas for renaming non-GNU ispell
Date: 2 Jun 1993 23:46:24 -0400
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