Re: [bug-miscfiles] Re: 'box' missing from web2?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 01/05/11 23:33, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> I found "box" in my /usr/dict/words, which inspired me to do 2 things:
> 
> 1. wonder why is there more than one free wordlist (mine came from
> SCOWL - wordlist.sourceforge.net), since this seems like an area where
> combining effort should be easy
> 
> 2. look for more missing words

Note that web2 is not supposed to be a modern English word list, but a copy of
an old-enough-that-it's-out-of-copyright version of a English word list.  So,
things like "software", I'm not surprised you don't find it in there...


> Going the other way, 162 words in web2 are missing from even the biggest
> wordlist in that other collection. Most of them are foreign words with
> accent marks dropped, which I think is fine - this is an English word
> list and a word that can't be spelled in our 26 glorious letters isn't
> English.

I disagree.

But generally agree that web2 is deprecated.

behdad