spell, spellin, spellout \- find spelling errors
collects words from the named documents,
and looks them up in a spelling list.
Words that neither occur among nor are derivable
(by applying certain inflections,
prefixes or suffixes) from words in the spelling list
are printed on the standard output.
words are collected from the standard input.
option, all words not literally in the spelling list are printed,
and plausible derivations from spelling list words are indicated.
option, British spelling is checked.
centre, colour, speciality, travelled,
Fowler and the OED to the contrary
option, every plausible stem is printed with `=' for each word.
The spelling list is based on many sources,
and while more haphazard than an ordinary
dictionary, is also more effective in respect to
proper names and popular technical words.
the specialized vocabularies of biology,
medicine and chemistry is light.
Pertinent auxiliary files may be specified by
name arguments, indicated below with their
are accumulated in the history file.
The stop list filters out misspellings (e.g. thier=thy\-y+ier)
that would otherwise pass.
Two routines help maintain the hash lists used by
Both expect a list of words, one per line,
adds the words on the standard input to the
and places a new list on the standard output.
is specified, the new list is created from scratch.
looks up each word in the standard input and prints
those that are missing from (or present on, with
D=/usr/dict/hlist[ab]: hashed spelling lists, American & British
S=/usr/dict/hstop: hashed stop list
H=/usr/dict/spellhist: history file
deroff(1), sort(1), tee(1), sed(1)
The spelling list's coverage is uneven;
new installations will probably wish to
monitor the output for several months to gather
British spelling was done by an American.