Non-word "accreditate" in /usr/dict/words

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1697 at desint.UUCP> geoff at desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
-In article <1338 at hoqax.UUCP> twb at hoqax.UUCP (BEATTIE) writes:
-> This machine accepts "sincerly" as correctly spelled when it should only
-> accept "sincerely".
-This is because of the optimistic design of spell(1).  Spell has a list of
-suffix rules, which it applies to all words indiscriminately.  A suffix
-that only makes sense on a verb (e.g., -ment) will be applied to nouns,
-adverbs, and adjectives as well.  Thus, for example, spell accepts
-"sincerement" as well as "sincerly" (I just checked).

Spell (at least the System V version) has a "stop list" that can be
tweaked to catch common errors such as "sincerly" that slip through
the net.  Not great, but it works.