Bug 13895

<<On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 11:22:50 -0400 (EDT), kbyanc@posi.net said:

> 	Surely, this is not all of them, but I recently discovered that the
> 	following words cannot be located in any English dictionary I have
> 	access to, but are listed in /usr/share/dict/web2:

If they are in web2, it means they were in Webster's Second
Unabridged.

> 		acrologic
> 		acrologically

These two are attested in the OED.

> 		acrologism

The meaning is obvious, I think.

> 		acrologue
> 		acrology

These seem to be unrelated, and I can find no attestation.

> 		acromania

Obvious.

> 		acromastitis

Probably a jargon term.


> 		http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
> 	and type in any of the above words (the latter being the actual
> 	websters dictionary).

That doesn't necessarily prove anything.  There are several publishers
using the name ``Webster'' for their dictionaries, and in any case
words are sometimes removed from non-historical dictionaries.  Since
the last citation for ``acrologically'' in the OED is from 1932 -- the
same year as Webster's Second was published IIRC -- that is probably
the explanation.

-GAWollman

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  I have since found acromania, acromegalic, acrologue, and acrology in an
old printed dictionary.

  I still cannot find acrologic, or any variation thereof. If the only
source is the OED, I can't help but wonder if this is a variation between
American and the Queen's English. I won't pretend to be knowledgable on the
subject, I'm just reporting what I have found. Given that
/usr/share/dict/README specifically states:
	Note that FreeBSD is not maintaining a historical document, we're
	maintaining a list of current [American] English spellings.
  If it is not current American English, I still assert they should be
removed.

  As for the word I reported: acromastitis, if it is jargon, then either it
should be removed, or a whole bunch of missing words are begging to be added
(such as pixel, pixelate, pixelated).

  Kelly
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On Wed, Sep 22, 1999, Kelly Yancey wrote:
>    As for the word I reported: acromastitis, if it is jargon, then either it
>  should be removed, or a whole bunch of missing words are begging to be added
>  (such as pixel, pixelate, pixelated).

   I've got a dictionary here that has "pixel" as an entry.  It
is published by "Lexicon Publishing" and is titled _The New
Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language_.

-- 
|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
|That does not compute.
`----------------------------------

  Please close this PR. It was a very minor 'problem' and one no one is
interested in pursuing it.

  Kelly

Comment 5 nrahlstr 2000-05-31 04:12:19 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Closed at originators request.