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 5.5 Creating an Individual Word List
 ====================================
 
 To create an individual main word list from a list of words use the
 command
 
      aspell --lang=LANG create master ./BASE < WORDLIST
 
 where BASE is the name of the word list and WORDLIST is the list of
 words separated by white space.  The name of the word list will
 automatically be converted to all lowercase.  The `./' is important
 because without it Aspell will create the word list in the normal word
 list directory.  If you are trying to create a word list in a language
 other than English check the Aspell `data-dir' (usually
 `/usr/share/aspell', use `aspell dump config' to find out what it is on
 your system) to see if a language data file exists for your language.
 If not you will need to create one.  For more information on using
 Aspell with other languages  Adding Support For Other Languages.
 
    This will create the file `BASE' in the current directory.  To use
 the new word list copy the file to the normal word list directory (use
 `aspell config' to find out what it is) and use the option
 `--master=BASE'.
 
    During the creating of the dictionary you may get a number of
 warnings or errors about invalid words or affixes.  By default Aspell
 will skip any invalid words and remove invalid affixes.  If you rather
 that Aspell simply accepts all words given then the option
 `--dont-validate-words' can be specified.  To avoid checking if affixes
 are valid use the option `--dont-validate-affixes'.  However, rather
 than disable checking, it is preferable to clean the input word list.
 This can be done by using the command
 
      aspell --local-data-dir=./ --lang=LANG clean < WORDLIST > RESULT
 
 which will clean the word list and output the results to RESULT.  By
 default it will remove invalid characters from the beginning and end of
 a word before resorting to skipping the word.  If you rather it just
 skip the words than add the keyword strict:
 
      aspell --local-data-dir=./ --lang=LANG clean strict < WORDLIST > RESULT
 
    The option `--clean-words' can be be added when creating a
 dictionary if you want Aspell to remove invalid characters from the
 beginning and end of a word like the "clean" command does. In addition
 the options `--dont-skip-invalid-words' and `--dont-clean-affixes' can
 be specified to turn the warnings into errors.
 
    The compiled dictionary file are endian order dependent.  When a
 dictionary is loaded the endian order is checked.  Please do not
 distribute the compiled dictionaries unless you are only distributing
 them for a particular platform such as you would a binary.
 
    Aspell is now also able to use special `multi' dictionaries.  for
 more information  How Aspell Selects an Appropriate Dictionary.
 
    A personal and replacement word list can be created in a similar
 fashion.
 
 5.5.1 Format of the Replacement Word List
 -----------------------------------------
 
 The replacement word list has each replacement pair on its own line in
 the following format
 
      misspelled_word correction
 

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