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From: jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: more words!
Keywords: On another newsgroup, someone brought up the old
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Date: 7 Jan 91 10:14:51 GMT
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bagchi@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Ranjan Bagchi) writes:

>"puzzle" about there being only 3 english words ending
>in "gry".  So, I did an egrep -e gry$ on /usr/dict/words
>and to my surprise, only two came up (angry, hungry).
> 
>	So...does anyone make available larger version of
>/usr/dict/words by anon ftp, or any other method?
> 
>	(Oh...for general interest...
>	$wc -l /usr/dict/words gives 25144 words...)
> 

The English dictionary comming with "ispell" is more complete
(51899 words) but also only has "angry" and "hungry".

BTW. Where can I get a German dictionary?


	Jan van der Steen

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