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Article #12226Re: Ideas for renaming non-GNU ispell
From: partha s. banerjee
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 22:09
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 22:09
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>In article <gnusenet1993Jun3.191512.3249@cs.ucla.edu> geoff@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Geoffrey Kuenning) writes:
>
> Okay, enough clarifications. Here are the leading candidates from the
> suggestions I've received so far:
>
> wspell (world spell)
> mspell (multi-lingual spell)
> panspell
>
> Votes and additional suggestions are welcome, preferably by e-mail.
>
I recently heard that "ok" was the best recognized word in the world (with
"coca-cola" coming in second) so how about "okspell"? ...
on the other hand i vaguely seem to rmember there already is a product out
there by that name. [might have been DOSish tho'].
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