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@item
Find doubled occurrences of words in a document.
-For example, people often write ``the the'' with the repeated words
+@c Separate the following two "the"s, so typo checkers don't complain.
+For example, people often write ``the @w{}the'' with the repeated words
separated by a newline. The Bourne shell script below works first
by converting each sequence of punctuation and blank characters to a
single newline. That puts each ``word'' on a line by itself.