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Package: iamerican
Severity: wishlist

Missing from ispell(1) and/or look(1): sinch
beside's appearing in dict, but not elsewhere,
an new meaning should be added to dict:
"It was a sinch" meaning it was simple.


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>>>>> "CW" == Colin Watson <[email protected]> writes:
CW> On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:09:22AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> Missing from ispell(1) and/or look(1): sinch
>> beside's appearing in dict, but not elsewhere,
>> an new meaning should be added to dict:
>> "It was a sinch" meaning it was simple.

CW> The more standard spelling is "cinch" (from Spanish "cincha").
CW> Wiktionary does list "sinch" as an alternative form, citing 1913
CW> Webster's; sadly I've gone over my lookup limit on merriam-webster.com

HA! :-)

CW> and can't check whether they still consider this to be in current usage.

CW> The sense you mention is given in dict-wn.

OK I'll use cinch. Closing.

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