“Diction and style are two old standard Unix commands. Diction identifies wordy and commonly misused phrases. Style analyses surface characteristics of a document, including sentence length and other readability measures.

“These programs cannot help you structure a document well, but they can help to avoid poor wording and compare the readability (not the understandability!) of your documents with others.”

I guess Aspell will eventually replace ispell. It’s a great spell checker. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

@Marcus, @John, @Roman,

mean might have been obsolete. I’ll keep you posted on this very soon.

@Siniranji, @Vince,

Thanks for your very kind words. I’m very glad you found this article helpful.