hughgrigg/wtdb

Spoonerism pair generator

WTDB (What's the Difference Between?)

WTDB is a word-play game where you guess spoonerism pairs based on a clue beginning with "what's the difference between?"

For example,

"What's the difference between an old locomotive and stress on a group?" -> "steam train" / "team strain"

This is a hacky Python script to produce potential spoonerism pairs based on a list of words.

Usage

Pipe the list of words to python3 wtdb.py, e.g. if you're on Ubuntu you can try:

cat /usr/share/dict/british-english | python3 wtdb.py

However that produces quite a lot of garbage due to weird words, short words, words with spaces or apostrophes, proper nouns etc.

A shorter word list might be better, e.g. from https://github.com/first20hours/google-10000-english

You could also limit to longer words to get more interesting results, e.g.

cat google-10000-english.txt | awk '{ if (length($0) > 4) print }' | python3 wtdb.py

Testing

python3 -m unittest wtdb_test.py