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+.TH WORDS 5 "29 Sept 1998" "Linux" "Linux Programmers Manual"
+.SH NAME
+polish \- a list of Polish words
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B /usr/share/dict/polish
+is an ASCII file which contains an alphabetic list of words, one per
+line.
+.SH FILES
+.I /etc/alternatives/dictionary
+is a symbolic link to a
+.I /usr/share/dict/<language>
+file.
+.I /usr/share/dict/words
+is a symbolic link to
+.IR /etc/alternatives/dictionary ,
+and is the name by which other software should refer to the
+system word list.
+See
+.BR update-alternatives (8)
+for more information.
+.PP
+The directory
+.I /usr/share/dict
+can contain word lists for many languages, with name of the language
+in English, e.g.,
+.I /usr/share/dict/french
+and
+.I /usr/share/dict/danish
+contain respectively lists of French and Danish words if they exist.
+Such lists should be coded using the ISO 8859-1 character set encoding.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR ispell (1),
+.BR update-alternatives (8),
+and the
+.I Filesystem Hierarchy
+.IR Standard .
+.SH HISTORY
+The words lists are not specific, and may be generated from any number
+of sources.
+.PP
+The system word list used to be
+.IR /usr/dict/words .
+For compatibility, software should check that location if
+.I /usr/share/dict/words
+does not exist.
+.SH AUTHOR
+Word lists are collected and maintained by various authors.
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