Amusingly for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/325776830 , the last place to use /usr/dict (Debian, which changed it in 1998; Berkeley having changed it in Net/2 in 1991) stopped doing so years before Wikipedia was invented.
Sure, but the fact that people are doing something isn't evidence that it isn't a mistake. Also they may be stuck due to concerns about backwards compatibility. There may be games and utilities they are shipping, that come from upstreams, that rely on these files.
In the current versions of FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Illumos, and Debian, it is still /usr/share/dict .
* https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/share/dict/
* https://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/share/dict/
* https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/?p=dragonfly.git;a=tree;f=sh...
* https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/share/dict
* https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch04s11.htm...
* https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/wbritish/filelist
Amusingly for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/325776830 , the last place to use /usr/dict (Debian, which changed it in 1998; Berkeley having changed it in Net/2 in 1991) stopped doing so years before Wikipedia was invented.