What's the point of the file /usr/share/dict/freebsd?

This wordlist is just 280 different words and abbreviations (including proper nouns) with no obvious patterns or relationships besides the fact that most of them (but not all, like Ukraine?) have something to do with computers and technology. What's the point?
 
The FreeBSD project is open‑source. You can inspect the revision history by yourself. 👀 There you will find the initial commit creating said file says​
This file 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, and can be used to greatly reduce the number of false positives when spell checking share/man/*, www/*, or doc/*
PS: ispell(1) has been abandoned in favor of aspell(1).
 
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