[Newspoetry] Re: poetic dictionaries

[Joe Futrelle]

Hey John, I forget--are you an IT person? If not, you can do this  
with a free word list and the open-source tool "grep". grep is a  
standard part of BSD *nix and so is available if you're on a Linux or  
Mac OS X machine. In some distros of BSD *nix, there's a word list  
at /usr/dict/words--if not, word lists are easy to find on the 'net.  
Then, if you want to find univocalics on "a" that are longer than 5  
letters, you can do it like this:

grep -vi "[eiou]" /usr/dict/words | grep "....."

(or wherever your words file is) This is imprecise because it  
uniformly treats y as a consonant, but it produces useful results  
anyway (I just ran it on the words from CUVOALD and learned the word  
"caravansary")

http://www.regular-expressions.info/

--
Joe Futrelle
Person


On May 2, 2007, at 8:42 AM, John wrote:

> I meant scrabble players instead of crossword puzzlers.  crossword
> puzzlers would have less need for lists of univocalic words.
>
> http://www.morewords.com/
> is the closest I've found.  Lots of different search options
> http://www.morewords.com/examples/
>
> But any search result with over 2000 answers they don't display, and
> univocalics for a,e,i and o are all over 2000.  (You can get a great
> list for U though with 1095 words)
>
> lustful cumulus crumbs hurt fungus glut
>
> John
>
> On 02/05/07, John <gavroche at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Speaking of links such as these...does anyone know of an online (or
>> offline) univocalic dictionary?  (maybe for crossword puzzlers)
>>
>> Ever since we were asked to write those poems about wax arafats I've
>> wanted one, as I have difficulty coming up with words longer than  
>> four
>> or five letters.
>>
>> On 01/05/07, DL Emerick <emerick at rap.midco.net> wrote:
>>
>> > http://rec-puzzles.org/index.php/Syllable.
>> > http://wordnavigator.com/word/word/
>>
>
>
> -- 
> John Newmark
> gavroche at gmail.com
> http://www.gavroche.org
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