I am considering putting together a script that converts all the letter/letter pairs in a Metrics Machine pair list into a word list by pulling words from dictionaries. Before I go through the trouble is there already one out there?
If you have a list of the pairs you can loop through them and for each, do:
grep '[kern pair]' /usr/share/dict/words
or you can do clever things like two at once, eg
cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep '[kern pair 1]' | grep '[kern pair 2]'
so
cat /usr/share/dict/words | grep 'av' | grep 'aw'
will get you
awave
drawshave
to output words in all caps add this
| tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]'
to output words with initial caps add this
| sed 's:^\(.\):\\U\\1:g'
The above ideas should work on most or all Unix/Linux-based systems, including System X.
But if all you have is a Windows box, you can get some wordlists from http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/ and the utility kit from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ and then get down and dirty with the command line. I think they'll work with MSWindows 95-XP. Beyond that, no idea at all.
I wonder how
http://adhesiontext.com
that generates dummy text following different languages and criterias, is working...
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