homonyms.frink

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// Program to find homophones, that is words that sound alike but are
// spelled differently.

// Use the Carnegie Mellon Pronunciation Dictionary
// The wordlist files are part of the Moby wordlist project, available at:
//   http://icon.shef.ac.uk/Moby/
file = "file:///home/eliasen/prog/mobydict/mpron/cmupronunciation.txt"

words = dict[]

// Read in approved words (to filter out most proper names)
approved = dict[]
approvedWords = "file:///home/eliasen/prog/mobydict/mwords/commondictionary.txt"
for line = lines[approvedWords]
   approved@(uc[line]) = true

for line = lines[file]
{
   // Regex matches just the word (minus number like (2) in parens and
   // pronunciation.
   if [word, pron] = line =~ %r/^([A-Z']+)(?:\(\d+\))?\s+(.*)/
   {
      if (approved@word == true)
         if words@pron == undef
            words@pron = [word]
         else
            words@pron.push[word]
   }    
}

// Print any entries with duplicate pronunciations.
for [pron, wordlist] words
{
   if length[wordlist] > 1
      println["$wordlist\t$pron"]
}


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This is a program written in the programming language Frink.
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