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@@ -6,52 +6,130 @@ perlvar - Perl predefined variables
=head2 Predefined Names
-The following names have special meaning to Perl. Most of the
-punctuation names have reasonable mnemonics, or analogues in one of
-the shells. Nevertheless, if you wish to use the long variable names,
-you just need to say
+The following names have special meaning to Perl. Most
+punctuation names have reasonable mnemonics, or analogs in the
+shells. Nevertheless, if you wish to use long variable names,
+you need only say
use English;
-at the top of your program. This will alias all the short names to the
-long names in the current package. Some of them even have medium names,
-generally borrowed from B