>> cat The following files are lists of words: dictionary......ordinary English words single-letters..single letters and zero length word gazetteer.......names and trademarks abbreviations...abbreviations glossary........computer science terms The file 'build' merges them all together to generate the file 'words', which is used by the 'spell' command and the (now obsolete) 'speling' command. The file 'new_words', when it exists, contains words that have not been looked up in a real dictionary or otherwise validated. The subdirectory 'new' is a convenient place for splitting the contents of 'new_words' out into the appropriate files.