"$d_SysMaint""text processors/aspell spelling checker notes.txt" www.BillHowell.ca 03Mar2021 initial - why didn't I use this des ago? $ aspell check "$d_PROJECTS""Neural Nets/People/James, Colin/210303 Howell - Colin James Missouri S&TU recommentation.txt" 24************************24 08********08 other [dictionary, spell checkers] +-----+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_(Unix) words is a standard file on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and is simply a newline-delimited list of dictionary words. It is used, for instance, by spell-checking programs.[1] The words file is usually stored in /usr/share/dict/words or /usr/dict/words. On Debian and Ubuntu, the words file is provided by the wordlist package, or its provider packages wbritish, wamerican, etc. On Fedora and Arch Linux, the words file is provided by the words package. >> on my suystem, /usr/share/dict/words links to : /etc/dictionaries-common/words which in turn links to : /usr/share/dict/american-english >> 99,171 words, it has prenames etc >> looks good for general stuff +-----+ https://linuxhint.com/grammar-spell-check-apps-linux/ Hunspell is a popular spell checking application and library used in many popular open source programs like LibreOffice, Google Chrome / Chromium and Firefox. Besides spell checking, Hunspell can also generate stemming, n-gram similarity and morphological analysis data. LanguageTool LanguageTool is an open source and cross-platform spell checking and grammar correction software. It supports over 20 languages, some of them are in development and have limited support. LanguageTool can parse any text in these supported languages, detect spelling mistakes, poor sentence construction and grammatical errors using various algorithms. It also provides suggestions to correct them automatically or manually. It is the best free alternative to premium grammar correction service “Grammarly”, though it comes with its own premium cloud based service that requires a monthly subscription plan to remove limits. It provides add-ons for FireFox and Chrome browsers as well as plugins for document editing software like LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Google Docs and Microsoft Word. Write-good is a Node.js library and command line utility that suggests edits for poor or uncommon sentence construction and writing style related errors. It does not provide suggestions for grammar extensively nor does it include a spell checker. It works by pointing out common sentence construction mistakes that increase complexity of written text. For instance, it actively checks for “passive” sentences and points out their usage. 08********08 03Mar2021 $ aspell check "$d_PROJECTS""Neural Nets/People/James, Colin/210303 Howell - Colin James Missouri S&TU recommentation.txt" # enddoc