On Jul 13, 2016, at 7:30 AM, Marco Atzeri wrote:
This needs to be coordinated with Warren's proposal:
https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2016-07/msg00015.html
the two packages seem to provide different word lists.
Yes. The ‘words’ package’s source is the Moby Project, released into the public domain in the mid-1990s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Project
The words file in my package comes from an out-of-copyright edition of the Merriam-Webster dictionary from the 1920s.
Therefore, the words package is more likely to be useful for any modern purpose.