Nicholas Clark skribis 2005-03-15 17:53 (+0000): > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:57:57PM +0100, Juerd wrote: > > And re its spelling, that's a very good feature, because it'll slowly > > teach me how to spell this word. And when I know how to spell it, I can > > use it on IRC without dict(1)ing to see if I remembered correctly. This > > will eventually save me hours! :) > One problem you may find with dict is that one common misspelling, "wether", > is also a valid English word, which any decent word list should contain. > (It's a castrated ram)
Dict uses dictionaries, not just word lists. It outputs the definition(s), so this misspelling is easily detected. I know both words exists. I just can't manage to remember which one is which, and maybe Perl 6 can help me :) Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html
