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  36. <PRE>On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:01:49PM +0000, Philip Kendall wrote:
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  37. &gt;<i> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:53:14AM +0000, Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote:
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  38. </I>&gt;<i> &gt; I forgot about stuff with capitals in /usr/share/dict/words. Damn.
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  39. </I>&gt;<i> For added fun, my /usr/share/dict/words (from dictionaries-common on
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  40. </I>&gt;<i> Debian unstable) also contains lots of apostrophes and also various
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  43. I got rid of those already. hence y/[a-z]//cd (which is why the capitals
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  46. &gt;<i> Debian stable's contains a few hyphens as well as &quot;Modula-2&quot; and
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  47. </I>&gt;<i> &quot;Modula-3&quot;, and FreeBSD's has &quot;Jean-Pierre&quot; and &quot;Jean-Christophe&quot;.
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  48. </I>&gt;<i> 
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  49. </I>&gt;<i> Perhaps the easiest would be to reject any words containing something
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  50. </I>&gt;<i> outside [a-z]?
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  52. That might be sensible.
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  54. MBM
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