WORDS(5)

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💖 WORDS(5) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Linux Programmers Manual — this is WORDS(5) and it's literally just... a vibe check on your dictionary files. pull up a chair 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

dutch — a list of Dutch words 🇳🇱

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

/usr/share/dict/dutch is an ASCII-encoded file, and inside it is an alphabetic list of words, one per line. that's it. that's the whole thing. iconic, honestly.

the words are in the official spelling of 2005 and have been certified as such by the TaalUnie 👑 no cap, they really did that.

🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

This word list has 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, and it exists for software compatibility.
  • the directory /usr/share/dict can contain word lists for many languages, with the 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 🤷‍♀️ fr fr, nobody's claiming these came from one single place.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

ispell(1), aspell(1) — go say hi besties 💅

and that's the whole page, bestie!! mwah 🫶

this was Linux, dated 4 June 1994, and it's page WORDS(5) — yeah the date is giving vintage but she's still serving 💖✨

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