spell.1 (1847B)
1 .TH SPELL 1 2 .SH NAME 3 spell, sprog \- find spelling errors 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B spell 6 [ 7 .I options 8 ] 9 \&... 10 [ 11 .I file 12 ] 13 \&... 14 .PP 15 .B sprog 16 [ 17 .I options 18 ] 19 [ 20 .B -f 21 .I file 22 ] 23 .SH DESCRIPTION 24 .I Spell 25 looks up words from the named 26 .I files 27 (standard input default) 28 in a spelling list and places 29 possible misspellings\(emwords 30 not sanctioned there\(emon the standard output. 31 .PP 32 .I Spell 33 ignores constructs of 34 .MR troff (1) 35 and its standard preprocessors. 36 It understands these options: 37 .TP 38 .B -b 39 Check British spelling. 40 .TP 41 .B -v 42 Print all words not literally in the spelling list, with 43 derivations. 44 .TP 45 .B -x 46 Print, marked with 47 .LR = , 48 every stem as it is looked up in the spelling list, 49 along with its affix classes. 50 .PP 51 As a matter of policy, 52 .I spell 53 does not admit multiple spellings of the same word. 54 Variants that follow general rules are preferred 55 over those that don't, even when the unruly spelling is 56 more common. 57 Thus, in American usage, `modelled', `sizeable', and `judgment' are 58 rejected in favor of `modeled', `sizable', and `judgement'. 59 Agglutinated variants are shunned: `crewmember' and `backyard' 60 cede to `crew member' and `back yard' (noun) or `back-yard' 61 (adjective). 62 .SH FILES 63 .TP 64 .B \*9/lib/amspell 65 American spelling list 66 .TP 67 .B \*9/lib/brspell 68 British spelling list 69 .TP 70 .B \*9/bin/sprog 71 The actual spelling checker. 72 It expects one word per line on standard input, 73 and takes the same arguments as 74 .IR spell . 75 .SH SOURCE 76 .TF \*9/src/cmd/spell 77 .TP 78 .B \*9/bin/spell 79 the script 80 .TP 81 .B \*9/src/cmd/spell 82 source for 83 .I sprog 84 .SH SEE ALSO 85 .MR deroff (1) 86 .SH BUGS 87 The heuristics of 88 .MR deroff (1) 89 used to excise formatting information are imperfect. 90 .PP 91 The spelling list's coverage is uneven; 92 in particular biology, medicine, and chemistry, and 93 perforce proper names, 94 not to mention languages other than English, 95 are covered very lightly.