ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) (02/15/88)
Raghu Ramakrishnan has kindly pointed out that in a recent message of mine I misspelled the word "epistolary". It's worse than that; I've apparently been mispronouncing it for years as well. Both the "Collins New Zealand Compact English Dictionary" and the "Websters II New Riverside University Dictionary" agree that the word is "epistolary". The unfortunate thing is that I *did* use the UNIX spelling checker on the message, but seeing that it didn't know "defuse" either, I thought it simply didn't know the word. What would have happened if I had used the "look" command? (For the benefit of those who didn't already know, "look prefix" prints out all the words in the UNIX dictionary which start with "prefix". It's a good way to check the spelling of words you are in doubt of.) Well, I tried it. % look episto epistolatory Which is wrong. Anyone have a good dictionary floating around? Anyone have a copy of the Springer LNCS book "Computer Programs for Spelling Correction" they don't want? (The last time I checked it was still out of print.)