NAME

/usr/5bin/spell − find spelling errors. 

SYNOPSIS

/usr/5bin/spell [ −v ] [ −b ] [ −x ] [ +local_file ] [ files...  ]

DESCRIPTION

spell 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.  If no files are named, words are collected from the standard input. 

Spell ignores most troff, tbl and eqn(1) constructions. 

Under the −v option, all words not literally in the spelling list are printed, and plausible derivations from spelling list words are indicated. 

Under the −b option, British spelling is checked.  Besides preferring centre, colour, speciality, travelled, etc., this option insists upon -ise in words like standardise, Fowler and the OED to the contrary notwithstanding. 

Under the −x option, every plausible stem is printed with ‘=’ for each word. 

Under the +local_file option, words found in local_file are removed from spell’s output.  The argument local_file is the name of a user-provided file that contains a sorted list of words, one per line.  With this option, the user can specify a set of words that are correct spellings (in additions to spell’s own spelling list) for each job. 

SEE ALSO

spell(1), spellin(1), spellout(1), sort(1)

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