This seems like something that would be fun to solve with Perl:
RAY: I have, written on a piece of paper in front of me, a word that
is plural and also masculine. Now, I know we don't have masculine and
feminine words in English the way we do in Italian or French. But,
we do have
this is the quickest way to solve the
problem in programmer time.
Steve
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From: Chris Devers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 2:29 PM
To: Boston Perl Mongers
Subject: [Boston.pm] a car talk puzzle
This seems like something that would be fun
Dear Chris,
The word I have written here is [...] masculine, and
ends in s. Not only that, but you change this word from plural to
singular and from masculine to feminine, all by adding an s to it!
[...]
If the word in question is in /usr/share/dict/words, then it should be
one
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 03:09:59PM -0400, Tolkin, Steve wrote:
*
Clearly * is feminine and singular and
I think that does have a masculine connotation.
That is not the correct answer. :)
There's a much more common word pair, where the singular
Dear Chris,
I wrote:
|| % perl -wMstrict -lne 'use vars qq.%x.; (my $y = $_) =~ s/ss$/s/; \
|| print if $x{$y}; $x{$_}++;' /usr/dict/words
|| ass
|| buss
|| canvass
|| discuss
|| Douglass
|| hiss
|| %
[...]
The Lingua::EN::Inflect approach would obviously not
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Tolkin, Steve wrote:
If the word in question is in /usr/share/dict/words
Big if, it turns out.
I cheated, the answer is here. DON'T READ THIS IF YOU HATE SPOILERS:
http://www.cartalk.com/content/puzzler/transcripts/200346/answer.html
Looking back at my /usr/share/dict/words,
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 15:43, Chris Devers wrote:
Looking back at my /usr/share/dict/words, the singular
form of the word doesn't show up
I find that kind of hard to believe... What unix are you running?
Anyway, here's my submission (I initially envisioned some xargs/grep
stuff at the end but
Using your script Jeremy, my dictionary (Solaris 5.8) came up with one
that I like
Ogres-Ogress
:-)
--Mark
On Wednesday, September 08, 2004 4:17 PM, Jeremy Muhlich wrote:
grep 'ss$' /usr/share/dict/words | sed -e s/ss// | \
cat - /usr/share/dict/words | sort | uniq -c | grep ' 2'
That
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Jeremy Muhlich wrote:
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 15:43, Chris Devers wrote:
Looking back at my /usr/share/dict/words, the singular
form of the word doesn't show up
I find that kind of hard to believe...
That was a think-o -- the singular is there, the plural isn't.
What unix are you
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Cox, Mark wrote:
Using your script Jeremy, my dictionary (Solaris 5.8) came up with one
that I like
Ogres-Ogress
Ya know, Shrek and Fiona meet both of these solutions to the puzzle :-)
heh...
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Chris Devers
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Chris Devers wrote:
I spent last night reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary,
and I only found one example for which this works.
That was a *very* long night.
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