ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (10/31/88)
While I make no claims about my lexicographic prowess, I did a bit of homework as a result of Vincent Broman's recent posting of bugs in my spelling list. I grabbed my copy of Webster's New World Dictionary (Deluxe Color Edition) and salvaged the following. The rest have been deleted. anomic: adj, characterized by lack of purpose, identity or ethical values ave: 1. interj. hail! 2. interj. farewell! 3. n. the salutation ave 4.Avenue backbend: n. an acrobatic stunt in which the body is bent backward beechen: adj. pertaining to the beech tree birchen: adj. pertaining to the birch tree delim: not a real word, but EQN users won't like deleting this one dept: abbreviation for department destuff: not a real word yet, but if HDLC catches on, who knows destuffing: see above destuffs: see above effector: n. a muscle, gland etc. capable of responding to a stimulus effectors: see above effector's: see above exhaustable: should be exhaustible (have to move it in the list) gsize: see delim hldc: see destuff headend: not a real word, but common when writing about broadband LANs headends: see above lapb: deleting this would disappoint all the PTT fans in the world, in any nanosec: 1/1000 of a microsec pcm: pulse code modulation (datacomm folks use this a lot) powerset: not in the dictionary, but I think it is a valid mathematical term powerset's: see above powersets: see above pragmat: computer jargon, but pretty common among compiler designers prog: v. to prowl about, as in search of food (for the British: add progging) protestor: Webster's says its ok; I won't protest protestor's: see above protestors: n. people who went to college in the 1960s purchaseable: should be purchasable sdlc: if we're gonna keep hldc and lapb, we gotta keep this too Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)