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DICTION(1)	    UNIX Programmer's Manual	       DICTION(1)



[1mNAME
     [0mdiction, explain - print wordy sentences; thesaurus for dic-
     tion

[1mSYNOPSIS
     diction [0m[ [1m-ml [0m] [ [1m-mm [0m] [ [1m-n [0m] [ [1m-f [0mpfile ] file ...
     [1mexplain

DESCRIPTION
     [0m_D_i_c_t_i_o_n finds all sentences in a document that contain
     phrases from a data base of bad or wordy diction.	Each
     phrase is bracketed with [ ].  Because _d_i_c_t_i_o_n runs _d_e_r_o_f_f
     before looking at the text, formatting header files should
     be included as part of the input.	The default macro package
     [1m-ms [0mmay be overridden with the flag [1m-mm. [0mThe flag [1m-ml [0mwhich
     causes [1mderoff [0mto skip lists, should be used if the document
     contains many lists of non-sentences.  The user may supply
     her/his own pattern file to be used in addition to the
     default file with [1m-f [0m_p_f_i_l_e. If the flag [1m-n [0mis also supplied
     the default file will be suppressed.

     _E_x_p_l_a_i_n is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by
     diction.

[1mSEE ALSO
     [0mderoff(1)

[1mBUGS
     [0mUse of non-standard formatting macros may cause incorrect
     sentence breaks.  In particular, _d_i_c_t_i_o_n doesn't grok [1m-me.

























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