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diff --git a/lib/Text/Abbrev.pm b/lib/Text/Abbrev.pm
index 77370d37c3..d12dfb36a6 100644
--- a/lib/Text/Abbrev.pm
+++ b/lib/Text/Abbrev.pm
@@ -2,6 +2,28 @@ package Text::Abbrev;
 require 5.000;
 require Exporter;
 
+=head1 NAME
+
+abbrev - create an abbreviation table from a list
+
+=head1 SYNOPSIS
+
+    use Abbrev;
+    abbrev *HASH, LIST
+
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+Stores all unambiguous truncations of each element of LIST
+as keys key in the associative array indicated by C<*hash>.
+The values are the original list elements.
+
+=head1 EXAMPLE
+
+    abbrev(*hash,qw("list edit send abort gripe"));
+
+=cut
+
 @ISA = qw(Exporter);
 @EXPORT = qw(abbrev);