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On Wed, 20 Jul 1994, Richard Sobocinski wrote:
> I read somewhere once (?) that some software companies
> purposely include some misspelled words in the lexicon
> files of their wordprocessor programs as a way to identify
> other programs that have ripped off this file.
This is standard with paper dictionaries and city maps.
