Used by the routine at START.

A token is two bytes: the word's class in the top nibble -- bits 5-6 of its first two dictionary bytes, read together -- and its twelve-bit dictionary offset below that. A synonym comes out as the word it stands for, so GET SWORD is TAKE SWORD by the time anything reads it. $C0 ends the line; $D0 is a word not in the dictionary, and the main loop prints the complaint and never calls the parser.

A typed word may be shortened or, within limits, lengthened. A candidate is taken if the two agree over the shorter length and the typed word is the shorter -- an abbreviation; if the typed word is the longer, only when the entry has at least four letters and no later candidate fits too. Tried: EXAM gives EXAMINE, INV gives INVENTORY, SWORDS gives SWORD, INT gives INTO because IN is too short to stretch, and EXAMINING is not a word at all, since its seventh letter disagrees.

Watched on real sentences: VICIOUSLY ATTACK THE TROLL WITH THE SWORD comes out as adverb, verb, article, noun, preposition, article, noun, end; TAKE THE MAP AND THE KEY puts AND in class $A; and a closing quote gets a full stop token inserted before it by the main loop, so what is said to a character ends as a sentence.