Split string by newline and space in Bourne shell

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Published on 2010-05-27T15:55:55Z Indexed on 2010/05/27 16:01 UTC
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I'm currently using the following to split a file into words - Is there some quicker way?

while read -r line
do
    for word in $line
    do
        words="${words}\n${word}"
    done
done

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