Somehow I ended up with wcatalan and not wamerican on my system. I have "bsdmainutils" which suggests and "xscreensaver" which recommends the virtual package "wordlist", and "wcatalan" was selected to fulfill that dependency.
I remember I used to be prompted if I wanted wamerican or wamerican-large, but I'm not sure how I ended up like this. I had a Woody CD which I upgraded to Sid and then installed xscreensaver with aptitude. (a) how did this happen, (b) was it misconfiguration on my part [i.e., I deliberately ended up like this] and (c) if not, what package do I file a bug against?
