Langages, orthographe et grammaire

1. Things that I often forget about
2. Command line dictionaries

1. Things that I often forget about

A license (American English) or licence (British English and French)
specially v.s. especially
un "x-acto": utility knife, couteau à lame, couteau tout usage

2. Command line dictionaries

2.1. Grammalecte

For french
https://grammalecte.net/
pip install pygrammalecte
grammalecte-cli.py

2.2. dict and dictd

sudo apt-get install -y dict

dict is an "online" dictionary, but it can be used with offline dictionaries from the manual: dict is a client for the Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT)

alias thrus='dict -d moby-thesaurus'

2.3. ispell and aspell and hunspell

tl;dr: ispell < aspell < hunspell

In WSL, sudo apt-get install -y dict ispell aspell

In FreeBSD, pkg install {fr-,en-}hunspell

2.4. wordlist

ls /usr/share/dict
look at "wordlist" packages

cli-thesaurus looks nice, it uses thesaurus.com and dictionary.com