poetry

Andy Jack f.e.jack-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Wed Oct 1 22:29:45 UTC 2003


On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 05:15:52PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
>       Use grep, anchored at the end of the word, to seach for the part
>       of the word you want to match:
> 
> grep ould$ /usr/share/dict/UKACD15a.TXT

This won't always work of course, because "would" rhymes with "wood"
(false negative), and "wood" doesn't rhyme with "food" (false positve).
Poetic license might be okay with food and wood.

And what rhymes with "orange" anyway?
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