diff --git a/share/dict/Makefile b/share/dict/Makefile
index 9d756c715424..1520b9909690 100644
--- a/share/dict/Makefile
+++ b/share/dict/Makefile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 NOOBJ=		noobj
 
 # XXX MISSING:	connectives words
-FILES=		README propernames web2 web2a
+FILES=		README propernames web2 web2a tech
 FILESDIR=	${BINDIR}/dict
 SYMLINKS=	web2 ${FILESDIR}/words
 
diff --git a/share/dict/README b/share/dict/README
index 8d6680b2914a..084deb430581 100644
--- a/share/dict/README
+++ b/share/dict/README
@@ -27,3 +27,10 @@ maintaining a list of current [American] English spellings.
 A few words have been removed because their spellings have depreciated.
 This list of words includes:
 	corelation (and its derivatives) -- "correlation" is the preferred spelling
+
+--
+
+A list of technical terms has been added in the file 'tech'.  This
+word list contains FreeBSD/Unix lexicon that is used by the system
+documentation.  It makes a great ispell(1) personal dictionary to
+supplement the standard English language dictionary.
diff --git a/share/dict/freebsd b/share/dict/freebsd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b61757da6346
--- /dev/null
+++ b/share/dict/freebsd
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+$FreeBSD$
+ABI
+ACPI
+AXP
+AlphaBIOS
+Appletalk
+BOFs
+BSDCon
+BSDi
+Barnes
+Border's
+CDROM
+CDROMs
+CDs
+CERT
+CPAN
+CTM
+CVS
+CVSROOT
+CVSup
+Chern
+CompUSA
+Compaq
+DEVBUF
+DNS
+DTD
+Dilbert
+DocBook
+Euro
+Firewire
+FreeBSD
+FreeBSD's
+Fry's
+GPL
+Greenman
+Haynes
+Hotmail
+Hubbard
+IBCS
+IPSec
+IPsec
+IRC
+ISA
+ISBN
+ISDN
+ISP
+Iomega
+JDK
+JadeTeX
+KDE
+KLD
+Kerberos
+Kerneltrap
+Lehey
+LinuxDoc
+MP
+Matrox
+Mozilla
+MySQL
+NAI
+NIC
+NIS
+NT
+NTFS
+Nasdaq
+NetBSD
+Newbus
+Newsflash
+Nokia
+Novell
+OSF
+OSnews
+OpenBSD
+OpenGL
+PCI
+PDF
+PPC
+PR
+PXE
+Perl
+Photoshop
+PicoBSD
+PostScript
+Postgres
+PowerPC
+SCO
+SMP
+SNMP
+SVR
+Shumway
+Slackware
+Sony
+StarOffice
+Stokely
+StrongArm
+SunOS
+Sutter
+Sybase
+Tcl
+Tk
+TrustedBSD
+UltraSPARC
+VFS
+VM
+Valentino
+Vaschetto
+Vinum
+XFree
+ZDNet
+awk
+contrib
+dialup
+diff
+diffs
+eBay
+eBones
+httpd
+iXsystems
+init
+installathon
+ipfw
+libc
+majordomo
+malloc
+microuptime
+misc
+multithreading
+newbies
+screenshot
+screenshots
+sed
+sgml
+shareware
+snprintf
+sprintf
+strcpy
+strncpy
+struct
+teTeX
+tradeshow
+vnode
+webmaster
+website
diff --git a/share/dict/tech b/share/dict/tech
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b61757da6346
--- /dev/null
+++ b/share/dict/tech
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+$FreeBSD$
+ABI
+ACPI
+AXP
+AlphaBIOS
+Appletalk
+BOFs
+BSDCon
+BSDi
+Barnes
+Border's
+CDROM
+CDROMs
+CDs
+CERT
+CPAN
+CTM
+CVS
+CVSROOT
+CVSup
+Chern
+CompUSA
+Compaq
+DEVBUF
+DNS
+DTD
+Dilbert
+DocBook
+Euro
+Firewire
+FreeBSD
+FreeBSD's
+Fry's
+GPL
+Greenman
+Haynes
+Hotmail
+Hubbard
+IBCS
+IPSec
+IPsec
+IRC
+ISA
+ISBN
+ISDN
+ISP
+Iomega
+JDK
+JadeTeX
+KDE
+KLD
+Kerberos
+Kerneltrap
+Lehey
+LinuxDoc
+MP
+Matrox
+Mozilla
+MySQL
+NAI
+NIC
+NIS
+NT
+NTFS
+Nasdaq
+NetBSD
+Newbus
+Newsflash
+Nokia
+Novell
+OSF
+OSnews
+OpenBSD
+OpenGL
+PCI
+PDF
+PPC
+PR
+PXE
+Perl
+Photoshop
+PicoBSD
+PostScript
+Postgres
+PowerPC
+SCO
+SMP
+SNMP
+SVR
+Shumway
+Slackware
+Sony
+StarOffice
+Stokely
+StrongArm
+SunOS
+Sutter
+Sybase
+Tcl
+Tk
+TrustedBSD
+UltraSPARC
+VFS
+VM
+Valentino
+Vaschetto
+Vinum
+XFree
+ZDNet
+awk
+contrib
+dialup
+diff
+diffs
+eBay
+eBones
+httpd
+iXsystems
+init
+installathon
+ipfw
+libc
+majordomo
+malloc
+microuptime
+misc
+multithreading
+newbies
+screenshot
+screenshots
+sed
+sgml
+shareware
+snprintf
+sprintf
+strcpy
+strncpy
+struct
+teTeX
+tradeshow
+vnode
+webmaster
+website