Re: A Reference Document

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

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