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DICTION(1)							    DICTION(1)

NAME
       diction, explain - print wordy sentences; thesaurus for diction

SYNOPSIS
       diction [ -ml ] [ -mm ] [ -n ] [ -f pfile ] file ...
       explain

DESCRIPTION
       Diction	finds  all sentences in a document that contain phrases from a
       data base of bad or wordy diction.  Each phrase is bracketed with [  ].
       Because	diction	 runs  deroff  before  looking at the text, formatting
       header files should be included as part	of  the	 input.	  The  default
       macro  package  -ms  may be overridden with the flag -mm.  The flag -ml
       which causes deroff to skip lists,  should  be  used  if	 the  document
       contains	 many lists of non-sentences.  The user may supply her/his own
       pattern file to be used in addition to the default file with -f	pfile.
       If the flag -n is also supplied the default file will be suppressed.

       Explain is an interactive thesaurus for the phrases found by diction.

SEE ALSO
       deroff(1)

BUGS
       Use  of	non-standard  formatting  macros  may cause incorrect sentence
       breaks.	In particular, diction doesn't grok -me.


7th Edition			 May 10, 1986			    DICTION(1)
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