A list of words isn’t a dictionary. What a dictionary adds over a list of words is all the relationships between the words needed to interpret them and use them, and all of that is in the weights.

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JdeBP 17 days ago | parent [-]

We should tell the Unix people that they've been giving /usr/share/dict the wrong name for over three decades. (-:

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yencabulator 17 days ago | parent [-]

I mean, they did, and we have, and we've also stopped doing that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_(Unix)

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JdeBP 17 days ago | parent [-]

We should start telling them again, then. (-:

In the current versions of FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Illumos, and Debian, it is still /usr/share/dict .

* https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/share/dict/

* https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/share/dict/

* https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/?p=dragonfly.git;a=tree;f=sh...

* https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/share/dict

* https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch04s11.htm...

* https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/wbritish/filelist

Amusingly for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/325776830 , the last place to use /usr/dict (Debian, which changed it in 1998; Berkeley having changed it in Net/2 in 1991) stopped doing so years before Wikipedia was invented.

	▲	simonh 14 days ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, but the fact that people are doing something isn't evidence that it isn't a mistake. Also they may be stuck due to concerns about backwards compatibility. There may be games and utilities they are shipping, that come from upstreams, that rely on these files.