These word lists were collected by Barry Brachman <brachman@cs.ubc.ca>
at the University of British Columbia.  They may be freely distributed
as long as this notice accompanies them.

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Info for minix.dict:

Article 1997 of comp.os.minix:
From: ast@botter.UUCP
Subject: A spelling checker for MINIX
Date: 6 Jan 88 22:28:22 GMT
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam

This dictionary is NOT based on
the UNIX dictionary so it is free of AT&T copyright.  I built the dictionary
from three sources.  First, I started by sorting and uniq'ing some public
domain dictionaries.  Second, as some of you probably know, I have written
somewhere between 3 and 6 books (depending on precisely what you count) and
an additional 50 published papers on operating systems, networks, compilers,
languages, etc.  This data base, which is online, is nonnegligible :-)
Finally, I added a number of words that I thought ought to be in the dictionary
including all the U.S. states, all the European and some other major countries,
principal U.S. and world cities, and a bunch of technical terms.  I don't want 
my spelling checker to barf on arpanet, diskless, modem, login, internetwork,
subdirectory, superuser, vlsi, or winchester just because Webster wouldn't
approve of them.  All in all, the dictionary is over 40,000 words.  If you
have any suggestions for additions or deletions, please post them.  But please
be sure you are not infringing on anyone's copyright in doing so.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)

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Info for mts.dict:

mts.dict contains only words that are not in /usr/dict/words.
[But note that your version of /usr/dict/words may be different from mine!
 Use "sort -u" to get a list of unique words. ]

From wc:

   24259   24259  198596 /usr/dict/words
   35475   35475  346992 mts.dict
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   59734   59734  545588 total

