What does "spell" do wrong?

[Bo Thide']

In article <7084 at saturn.ucsc.edu> jaap at chromo.UUCP (Jacob Wilbrink) writes:
>I've been wondering what the program "spell" does, since it
>seems to make very many errors. Some examples of words it thinks
>are spelled correctly are
>
>utomsrr
>mgdesou
>aneorxx

All these words are caught as misspelled by the HP-UX version of spell(1).


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