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NAME

       dutch - a list of Dutch words

DESCRIPTION

       /usr/share/dict/dutch is an ASCII-encoded file containing an alphabetic
       list of words, one per line. The words are in the official spelling  of
       2005 and have been certified as such by the TaalUnie.

AUTHOR

       This   word   list   as   been   created   by   the  OpenTaal  project:
       http://www.opentaal.org/

FILES

       /etc/dictionaries-common/words    This    is    a     link     to     a
       /usr/share/dict/<language> file.

       /usr/share/dict/words This is linked to /etc/dictionaries-common/words,
       it exists for software compatibility.

       The  directory  /usr/share/dict  can  contain  word  lists   for   many
       languages,    with   name   of   the   language   in   English,   e.g.,
       /usr/share/dict/french,           /usr/share/dict/german            and
       /usr/share/dict/danish contain respectively lists of French, German and
       Danish words if they exist.  Such lists should be coded using  the  ISO
       8859 character set encoding.

HISTORY

       The  words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number
       of sources.

SEE ALSO

       ispell(1), aspell(1)