Thanks, Mike.  Didn't have that package:

$ dpkg -l wamerican
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                              Version
 Description
+++-=================================-=================================-==================================================================================
un  wamerican                         <none>
 (no description available)

Finally got it with an apt-get, but what a rats nest of symlinks:

$ ls -l /usr/share/dict/words
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Dec 10  2007 /usr/share/dict/words ->
/etc/dictionaries-common/words

$ ls -l /etc/dictionaries-common/words
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Mar  6 16:18 /etc/dictionaries-common/words
-> /usr/share/dict/american-english

$ ls -l /usr/share/dict/american-english
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 931467 Dec 20  2005 /usr/share/dict/american-english

Regards,
- Robert

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Mike Bigalke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In Ubuntu 8.04:
>
> # ls /usr/share/dict
> american-english  README.select-wordlist  words.pre-dictionaries-common
> british-english   words
>
> grep -i '^.eq' /usr/share/dict/words
>
> or
>
> grep -i '^.eq' /usr/share/dict/american-english
>
> Works fine.

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