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+#	@(#)README	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
+# $FreeBSD$
+
+WEB ---- (introduction provided by jaw@riacs) -------------------------
+
+Welcome to web2 (Webster's Second International) all 234,936 words worth.
+The 1934 copyright has lapsed, according to the supplier.  The
+supplemental 'web2a' list contains hyphenated terms as well as assorted
+noun and adverbial phrases.  The wordlist makes a dandy 'grep' victim.
+
+     -- James A. Woods    {ihnp4,hplabs}!ames!jaw    (or jaw@riacs)
+
+Dictionaries for other languages, e.g. Afrikaans, American, Aussie,
+Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French,
+German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Norwegian, Polish,
+Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Yiddish, are available
+at ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists.
+
+Country names are stored in the file /usr/share/misc/iso3166.
+
+
+FreeBSD Maintenance Notes ---------------------------------------------
+
+Note that FreeBSD is not maintaining a historical document, we're
+maintaining a list of current [American] English spellings.
+
+A few words have been removed because their spellings have depreciated.
+This list of words includes:
+    corelation (and its derivatives)	"correlation" is the preferred spelling
+    freen				typographical error in original file
+    freend				archaic spelling no longer in use;
+					masks common typo in modern text
+
+--
+
+A list of technical terms has been added in the file 'freebsd'.  This
+word list contains FreeBSD/Unix lexicon that is used by the system
+documentation.  It makes a great ispell(1) personal dictionary to
+supplement the standard English language dictionary.