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Bug#861025: "sangs" should not be in the English dictionary

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Control: retitle -1 sangs should be no lower than -80, probably -95, not -35
Control: tag -1 pending

On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, Josh Triplett wrote:
> The English dictionary includes the word "sangs". I can't find any
> evidence suggesting that this is a word in English, based on several
> different dictionaries. ("sang" is a word, but not one with a plural
> like that.)

Apparently, sang is the common name for /Panax quinquefolius/, and its
plural is sangs.

However, that's so obscure that it while it's reasonable to be in
-insane or possibly -huge, it definitely should not be in -35 where it
is currently.

https://git.donarmstrong.com/deb_pkgs/scowl.git/c/4d4ec is the fix for it.

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Don Armstrong                      https://www.donarmstrong.com

I'm wrong to criticize the valor of your brave men. It's important to
die for one's country when it means being the subject of a king who
wears a ruffled collar or a pleated one.
 -- Cyrano de Bergerac

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Bug#861025: "sangs" should not be in the English dictionary Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2017-04-23 22:30 +0200
  Bug#861025: "sangs" should not be in the English dictionary Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2017-04-25 00:10 +0200
    Bug#861025: "sangs" should not be in the English dictionary Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> - 2017-04-26 12:10 +0200

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