D. Jacobson wrote:
> These might be missing from ispell(1) and/or look(1):
> impune
Pardon me, but did you mean "impugn"? If so, that's already in
'iamerican' -- "impune" looks like a misspelling of that, in
which case this bug can be closed.
> From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
>
> Impugn \Im*pugn"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impugned}; p. pr. & vb.
> n. {Impugning}.] [OE. impugnen, F. impugner, fr. L.
> impugnare; in on, against + pugnare to flight. See
> {Pugnacious}.]
> To attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to
> call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay;
> to oppose; as, to impugn a person's integrity.
> [1913 Webster]
>
> The truth hereof I will not rashly impugn, or
> overboldly affirm. --Peacham.
> [1913 Webster]
OTOH there is this:
> Impune \Im*pune"\, a. [L. impunis.]
> Unpunished. [R.]
> [1913 Webster]
...but nobody ever uses it, it's a dead latinism. Including it
might lead to letting misspellings of "impugn" slip by.
That is, should a spellchecker dictionary be designed to find
the most likely misspellings, or should it be an adjunct to an
unabridged dictionary even if modern writing may suffer for it?
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