> For reference, on my MacBook, the standard dictionary in /usr/share/dict/words is 2,486,813 bytes Polish dictionary is about 3,500,000 /words/, many more are

> For reference, on my MacBook, the standard dictionary in /usr/share/dict/words is 2,486,813 bytes Polish dictionary is about 3,500,000 /words/, many more are generated by the affix file. From archeology I've done some time ago, about year 1997 there were custom scripts written by creators/maintainers of Polish ispell dictionary, because as the files note using the standard toolset would require over 1 GB of RAM (this was in year 1997, mind you).