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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  con‐
       tains  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)