Juerd writes: > Nicholas Clark skribis 2005-03-15 17:53 (+0000): > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:57:57PM +0100, Juerd wrote: > > > And re its spelling, that's a very good feature, because it'll slowly > > > teach me how to spell this word. And when I know how to spell it, I can > > > use it on IRC without dict(1)ing to see if I remembered correctly. This > > > will eventually save me hours! :) > > One problem you may find with dict is that one common misspelling, "wether", > > is also a valid English word, which any decent word list should contain. > > (It's a castrated ram) > > Dict uses dictionaries, not just word lists. It outputs the > definition(s), so this misspelling is easily detected. > > I know both words exists. I just can't manage to remember which one is > which, and maybe Perl 6 can help me :)
Meany other hackers halve trouble remembering witch is witch to. I'm all ways perfectly rite thou. Luke