Find a good available .com domain

Re:Find a good available .com domain by TowerTall on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:53AM (#31664833)

> If you’re on Mac, Linux, or BSD, you should have a dictionary of words at /usr/share/dict/words

Why do they come with a dictionary of words?

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Re:Find a good available .com domain by jacquesm on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @05:23AM (#31665003)

Password generators, spell checkers, password crackers, textual analysis, the 'look' program. Probably more than that!

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Re:Find a good available .com domain by CydeWeys on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @06:07AM (#31665262)

Spell checker is an obvious use case. You can then add terms to the system dictionary and now they're valid systemwide in all apps that use the dictionary for spell checking!

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Re:Find a good available .com domain by StreamBright on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:55AM (#31664840)

There are some legit use cases:

    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. The words file is usually stored in /usr/share/dict/words or /usr/dict/words.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_(Unix)

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Re:Find a good available .com domain by Tempest1981 on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:59AM (#31664860)

Are there other languages besides English and British?

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Re:Find a good available .com domain by chipaca on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @05:02AM (#31664883)

    $ apt-cache search 'words for /usr/share/dict' | sed -e 's/^[^ ]* - //; s/ dictionary words.*//' | sort -u
    American English
    British English
    Bulgarian
    Canadian English
    Catalan
    Esperanto
    French
    German medical
    Irish (Gaeilge)
    Italian
    Manx Gaelic
    Polish
    Spanish
    Swedish
    Ukrainian

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Re:Find a good available .com domain by jwilk on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @06:21AM (#31665332)

Not every word list package has "words for /usr/share/dict" in the description.

  $ grep-aptavail -wF Provides wordlist -s Package,Description | tbl-dctrl 
  +===================+=======================================================+
  | Package           | Description                                           |
  +-------------------+-------------------------------------------------------+
  | wbulgarian        | Bulgarian dictionary words for /usr/share/dict        |
  | wbrazilian        | Brazilian Portuguese wordlist                         |
  | wdanish           | The Comprehensive Danish Dictionary (DSDO) - wordlist |
  | wdutch            | list of Dutch words                                   |
  | wesperanto        | Esperanto dictionary words for /usr/share/dict        |
  | wogerman          | Traditional German wordlist                           |
  | wngerman          | New German orthography wordlist                       |
  | wswiss            | Swiss (German) orthography wordlist                   |
  | wpolish           | Polish dictionary words for /usr/share/dict           |
  | wfaroese          | Faroese dictionary / wordlist                         |
  | wgalician-minimos | Wordlist for Galician (minimos)                       |
  | wukrainian        | Ukrainian dictionary words for /usr/share/dict        |
  | wportuguese       | European Portuguese wordlist                          |
  | wgerman-medical   | German medical dictionary words for /usr/share/dict   |
  | miscfiles         | Dictionaries and other interesting files              |
  | wnorwegian        | Norwegian word list                                   |
  | wamerican         | American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wamerican-huge    | American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wamerican-insane  | American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wamerican-large   | American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wamerican-small   | American English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wbritish          | British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict  |
  | wbritish-huge     | British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict  |
  | wbritish-insane   | British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict  |
  | wbritish-large    | British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict  |
  | wbritish-small    | British English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict  |
  | wcanadian         | Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wcanadian-huge    | Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wcanadian-insane  | Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wcanadian-large   | Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wcanadian-small   | Canadian English dictionary words for /usr/share/dict |
  | wcatalan          | Catalan dictionary words for /usr/share/dict          |
  | wswedish          | Swedish dictionary words for /usr/share/dict          |
  | wfrench           | French dictionary words for /usr/share/dict           |
  | witalian          | Italian dictionary words for /usr/share/dict/         |
  | wspanish          | Spanish dictionary words for /usr/share/dict          |
  +===================+=======================================================+

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Re:Find a good available .com domain by capableweb on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @05:04AM (#31664896)

There is indeed. Usually you chose what lists to install as part of installation, otherwise it's just one package install away.

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Re:Find a good available .com domain by Gigachad on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:56AM (#31664847)

Not sure the origin but I have seen it used several times where random words are needed. So it certainly is handy.

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