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Re: A Reference Document

From:Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...>
Date:Thursday, January 22, 2004, 18:07
Hey.

On my shelf here at work I have a Reverse English Dictionary which does
just this; it's fun to look through.

I also have a 20,000 item English word list which contains for each
entry its transcription, number of syllables, stress pattern, spelling,
part of speech, and frequency (according to Francis and Kucera). I
wrote a little perl script that I use to search it for patterns of
various types. Very handy.

Dirk

On Thursday, January 22, 2004, at 12:18  AM, Gary Shannon wrote:

> I don't know if anyone else will have any use for > this, but I was trying to research words ending in > English to discover what suffixes and endings are > common and which ones are rare. > > Anyway, I grabbed about 8200 words out of a pile of > documents I had that includes movie screenplays, > Internet news stories, and a couple of novels. Then I > sorted the words into ascending sequence by the FINAL > letters. > > You can see the list here: > > http://fiziwig.com/endings.txt > > Here's a sample of what the file contains: > ... > magic > geologic > gothic > public > metallic > comic > cosmic > volcanic > organic > panic > titanic > galvanic > bubonic > electronic > palezoic > mesozoic > tropic > barbaric > fabric > eymeric > phantasmagoric > prehistoric > pediatric > electric > basic > triassic > classic > jurassic > music > dramatic > automatic > lunatic > democratic > hectic > antarctic > alphabetic > ... > > Caution, this corpus probably contains a lot of slang > and off-color words being that it includes words from > several screen plays, not all of which were rated G. > > --gary > >
-- Dirk Elzinga Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. - Lyall Watson