Description: Various typos have been fixed
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Author: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>

--- dict-devil-1.0.orig/devils.txt
+++ dict-devil-1.0/devils.txt
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ of possible charges of plagiarism, which
 resuming his own the author hopes to be held guiltless by those to 
 whom the work is addressed -- enlightened souls who prefer dry wines 
 to sweet, sense to sentiment, wit to humor and clean English to slang.
-    A conspicuous, and it is hope not unpleasant, feature of the book 
+    A conspicuous, and it is hoped not unpleasant, feature of the book 
 is its abundant illustrative quotations from eminent poets, chief of 
 whom is that learned and ingenius cleric, Father Gassalasca Jape, 
 S.J., whose lines bear his initials.  To Father Jape's kindly 
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ ABRACADABRA.
         And his eyes uncommonly bright.
 
     Philosophers gathered from far and near
-    To sit at his feat and hear and hear,
+    To sit at his feet and hear and hear,
             Though he never was heard
             To utter a word
         But "_Abracadabra, abracadab_,
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ affairs of others.
 
     Said a man to a crapulent youth:  "I thought
         You a total abstainer, my son."
-    "So I am, so I am," said the scrapgrace caught --
+    "So I am, so I am," said the scapegrace caught --
         "But not, sir, a bigoted one."
                                                                   G.J.
 
@@ -3030,7 +3030,7 @@ HEAD-MONEY, n.  A capitation tax, or pol
 HEARSE, n.  Death's baby-carriage.
 
 HEART, n.  An automatic, muscular blood-pump.  Figuratively, this 
-useful organ is said to be the esat of emotions and sentiments -- a 
+useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments -- a 
 very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once 
 universal belief.  It is now known that the sentiments and emotions 
 reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of 
@@ -3225,7 +3225,7 @@ soul.  By that good lady the Houris are
 esteem.
 
 HOUSE, n.  A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, 
-mouse, beelte, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe.  
+mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe.  
 _House of Correction_, a place of reward for political and personal 
 service, and for the detention of offenders and appropriations.  
 _House of God_, a building with a steeple and a mortgage on it.  
@@ -3300,7 +3300,7 @@ HYPOCHONDRIASIS, n.  Depression of one's
                                                         Bogul S. Purvy
 
 HYPOCRITE, n.  One who, profession virtues that he does not respect 
-secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises.
+secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.
 
 
                                   I
@@ -3310,7 +3310,7 @@ I is the first letter of the alphabet, t
 the first thought of the mind, the first object of affection.  In 
 grammar it is a pronoun of the first person and singular number.  Its 
 plural is said to be _We_, but how there can be more than one myself 
-is doubtless clearer the grammarians than it is to the author of this 
+is doubtless clearer to the grammarians than it is to the author of this 
 incomparable dictionary.  Conception of two myselfs is difficult, but 
 fine.  The frank yet graceful use of "I" distinguishes a good writer 
 from a bad; the latter carries it with the manner of a thief trying to 
@@ -3436,7 +3436,7 @@ IMMORTALITY, n.
                                                                   G.J.
 
 IMPALE, v.t.  In popular usage to pierce with any weapon which remains 
-fixed in the wound.  This, however, is inaccurate; to imaple is, 
+fixed in the wound.  This, however, is inaccurate; to impale is, 
 properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the 
 body, the victim being left in a sitting position.  This was a common 
 mode of punishment among many of the nations of antiquity, and is 
@@ -3681,7 +3681,7 @@ INFANCY, n.  The period of our lives whe
 afterward.
 
 INFERIAE,n.  [Latin]  Among the Greeks and Romans, sacrifices for 
-propitation of the _Dii Manes_, or souls of the dead heroes; for the 
+propitiation of the _Dii Manes_, or souls of the dead heroes; for the 
 pious ancients could not invent enough gods to satisfy their spiritual 
 needs, and had to have a number of makeshift deities, or, as a sailor 
 might say, jury-gods, which they made out of the most unpromising 
@@ -4073,7 +4073,7 @@ antiquary, its later was adopted as a si
 touching -- means of keeping the calamity ever in the national memory.  
 It is not known if the name of the letter was altered as an additional 
 mnemonic, or if the name was always _Klatch_ and the destruction one 
-of nature's pums.  As each theory seems probable enough, I see no 
+of nature's puns.  As each theory seems probable enough, I see no 
 objection to believing both -- and Dr. Snedeker arrayed himself on 
 that side of the question.
 
@@ -4364,7 +4364,7 @@ chronicle as if it were a statue.  Let t
 mark a good word as "obsolete" or "obsolescent" and few men 
 thereafter venture to use it, whatever their need of it and however 
 desirable its restoration to favor -- whereby the process of 
-improverishment is accelerated and speech decays.  On the contrary, 
+impoverishment is accelerated and speech decays.  On the contrary, 
 recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow 
 at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense, has 
 no following and is tartly reminded that "it isn't in the dictionary" 
@@ -4521,7 +4521,7 @@ denied the reward of success.
     Alas! we cannot know if this is true,
     For reading Milton's wit we perish too.
 
-LOGANIMITY, n.  The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance 
+LONGANIMITY, n.  The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance
 while maturing a plan of revenge.
 
 LONGEVITY, n.  Uncommon extension of the fear of death.
@@ -4561,7 +4561,7 @@ his tongue when you wish to talk.
 LORD, n.  In American society, an English tourist above the state of a 
 costermonger, as, lord 'Aberdasher, Lord Hartisan and so forth.  The 
 traveling Briton of lesser degree is addressed as "Sir," as, Sir 'Arry 
-Donkiboi, or 'Amstead 'Eath.  The word "Lord" is sometimes used, also, 
+Donkiboi, of 'Amstead 'Eath.  The word "Lord" is sometimes used, also, 
 as a title of the Supreme Being; but this is thought to be rather 
 flattery than true reverence.
 
@@ -4861,7 +4861,7 @@ MAN, n.  An animal so lost in rapturous
 thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.  His 
 chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own 
 species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to 
-infest the whole habitable earh and Canada.
+infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.
 
     When the world was young and Man was new,
         And everything was pleasant,
@@ -5079,7 +5079,7 @@ _Molecule_.)  According to Leibnitz, as
 be understood, the monad has body without bulk, and mind without 
 manifestation -- Leibnitz knows him by the innate power of 
 considering.  He has founded upon him a theory of the universe, which 
-the creature bears without resentment, for the monad is a gentlmean.  
+the creature bears without resentment, for the monad is a gentleman.  
 Small as he is, the monad contains all the powers and possibilities 
 needful to his evolution into a German philosopher of the first class 
 -- altogether a very capable little fellow.  He is not to be 
@@ -5172,7 +5172,7 @@ MULATTO, n.  A child of two races, asham
 
 MULTITUDE, n.  A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue.  In 
 a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.  "In a multitude 
-of consellors there is wisdom," saith the proverb.  If many men of 
+of counsellors there is wisdom," saith the proverb.  If many men of 
 equal individual wisdom are wiser than any one of them, it must be 
 that they acquire the excess of wisdom by the mere act of getting 
 together.  Whence comes it?  Obviously from nowhere -- as well say 
@@ -5912,7 +5912,7 @@ POLITICS, n.  A strife of interests masq
 principles.  The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
 
 POLITICIAN, n.  An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the 
-superstructure of organized society is reared.  When we wriggles he 
+superstructure of organized society is reared.  When he wriggles he 
 mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice.  
 As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being 
 alive.
@@ -5973,7 +5973,7 @@ PRAY, v.  To ask that the laws of the un
 of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
 
 PRE-ADAMITE, n.  One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory 
-race of antedated Creation and lived under conditions not easily 
+race that antedated Creation and lived under conditions not easily 
 conceived.  Melsius believed them to have inhabited "the Void" and to 
 have been something intermediate between fishes and birds.  Little its 
 known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and 
@@ -6128,7 +6128,7 @@ illustrious Jo. Miller cast a reproachfu
 answered, absently:  "When it is ajar," and threw himself from a high 
 promontory into the sea.  Thus perished in his pride the most famous 
 humorist of antiquity, leaving to mankind a heritage of woe!  No 
-successor worthy of the title has appeared, though Mr. Edward bok, of 
+successor worthy of the title has appeared, though Mr. Edward Bok, of 
 _The Ladies' Home Journal_, is much respected for the purity and 
 sweetness of his personal character.
 
@@ -6316,7 +6316,7 @@ RADIUM, n.  A mineral that gives off hea
 that a scientist is a fool with.
 
 RAILROAD, n.  The chief of many mechanical devices enabling us to get 
-away from where we are to wher we are no better off.  For this purpose 
+away from where we are to where we are no better off.  For this purpose 
 the railroad is held in highest favor by the optimist, for it permits 
 him to make the transit with great expedition.
 
@@ -6328,7 +6328,7 @@ White House in Washington are Theo-Doric
 the Dorians.  They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a 
 brick.
 
-REALISM, n.  The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads.  The 
+REALISM, n.  The art of depicting nature as it is seen by toads.  The 
 charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a 
 measuring-worm.
 
@@ -6590,7 +6590,7 @@ to enable the Executive to determine whe
 been done by the prosecuting attorney.  Any break in the continuity of 
 a disagreeable expectation.
 
-    Altgeld upon his incandescend bed
+    Altgeld upon his incandescent bed
     Lay, an attendant demon at his head.
 
     "O cruel cook, pray grant me some relief --
@@ -6721,7 +6721,7 @@ founder of the Fastidiotic School.
 RICE-WATER, n.  A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular 
 novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the 
 conscience.  It is said to be rich in both obtundite and lethargine, 
-and is brewed in a midnight fog by a fat which of the Dismal Swamp.
+and is brewed in a midnight fog by a fat witch of the Dismal Swamp.
 
 RICH, adj.  Holding in trust and subject to an accounting the property 
 of the indolent, the incompetent, the unthrifty, the envious and the 
@@ -7601,7 +7601,7 @@ mule, barkeeper:  it smells."
 Missouri.  But if he doesn't mind, you shouldn't."
     In the course of human events Mr. Clark went out, and there, 
 apparently, lay the incinerated and shrunken remains of his charger. 
-The boys idd not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the 
+The boys did not have any fun out of Mr. Clarke, who looked at the 
 body and, with the non-committal expression to which he owes so much 
 of his political preferment, went away.  But walking home late that 
 night he saw his mule standing silent and solemn by the wayside in the 
@@ -7924,7 +7924,7 @@ been greatly dignified.
 TOPE, v.  To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig.  
 In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping 
 nations are in the forefront of civilization and power.  When pitted 
-against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down 
+against the hard-drinking Christians the abstemious Mahometans go down 
 like grass before the scythe.  In India one hundred thousand beef- 
 eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two 
 hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan 
@@ -8074,7 +8074,7 @@ TRINITY, n.  In the multiplex theism of
 three entirely distinct deities consistent with only one.  Subordinate 
 deities of the polytheistic faith, such as devils and angels, are not 
 dowered with the power of combination, and must urge individually 
-their clames to adoration and propitiation.  The Trinity is one of the 
+their claims to adoration and propitiation.  The Trinity is one of the 
 most sublime mysteries of our holy religion.  In rejecting it because 
 it is incomprehensible, Unitarians betray their inadequate sense of 
 theological fundamentals.  In religion we believe only what we do not 
@@ -8337,7 +8337,7 @@ are accessible to suasion by the rude fo
     And I saw the Chief Forecaster, dead as any one can be --
     Dead and damned and shut in Hades as a liar from his birth,
     With a record of unreason seldom paralleled on earth.
-    While I looked he reared him solemnly, that incadescent youth,
+    While I looked he reared him solemnly, that incandescent youth,
     From the coals that he'd preferred to the advantages of truth.
     He cast his eyes about him and above him; then he wrote
     On a slab of thin asbestos what I venture here to quote --
@@ -8446,7 +8446,7 @@ WOMAN, n.
     deny the virtue and declare that such as creation's dawn beheld, 
     it roareth now.  The species is the most widely distributed of all 
     beasts of prey, infesting all habitable parts of the globe, from 
-    Greeland's spicy mountains to India's moral strand.  The popular 
+    Greenland's spicy mountains to India's moral strand.  The popular 
     name (wolfman) is incorrect, for the creature is of the cat kind.  
     The woman is lithe and graceful in its movement, especially the 
     American variety (_felis pugnans_), is omnivorous and can be