Looking for ascii dictionary...

JojoLinkyBob has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there any place on the web where I can freely download an ASCII dictionary? (or a hash is fine as long as I can read from it with SBDM/tie)...also it doesn't have to be that extensive, although that would be nice to have.

I wanted to write a script to convert the common words of a dictionary to its phonetical respresentation (0=s,z 1=t,d 2=n ,...) if any of you guys are into that..so in the future when I'm trying to remember a number I can quickly (hopefully) find a word match.

Thx

=~Desertcoder

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Re: Looking for ascii dictionary... by danger (Priest) on Mar 28, 2002 at 21:56 UTC
If you want a pronounciation dictionary, then the cmu dictionary might be what you're looking for (125,000+ words plus phonetic transcriptions). You may have to adjust the mapping of phonemes to digits (it has separate phonemes for NG, for TH as in thee vs. TH as in theta). But it is certainly something you can work with to develop your data file of numbers to words --- I just did so in a few minutes. Somewhat OT, but for those just looking for a large wordlist you might check out the yawl list available here, it has 263,533 entries ...by comparison, the stock /usr/share/dict/words file that came with my slackware distro has 38,619 entries. </p	[reply]
Re: Re: Looking for ascii dictionary... by JojoLinkyBob (Scribe) on Mar 28, 2002 at 22:49 UTC
Thanks guys, you've all been helpful! =~Desertcoder	[reply]
Re: Looking for ascii dictionary... by OnTheEdge (Novice) on Mar 28, 2002 at 20:48 UTC
This is a good site for phonetics (but unicode) mapping that I have used in the past... http://www.gsu.edu/~lawmmb/phonweb/ YMMV...may not be exactly what you want... OnTheEdge	[reply]
Re: Looking for ascii dictionary... by petral (Curate) on Mar 28, 2002 at 21:47 UTC
The Puzzlers' League has pretty well scoured the net/world for english dictionaries. (Or rather word lists, meanings are not their concern.) p	[reply]
Re: Looking for ascii dictionary... by JojoLinkyBob (Scribe) on Mar 28, 2002 at 20:24 UTC
If you are curious about thephonetic mapping, here's a good link: http://www.premiumhealth.com/memory/htiym3.htm =~Desertcoder	[reply]
Re: Looking for ascii dictionary... by ferrency (Deacon) on Mar 28, 2002 at 21:26 UTC
If you're playing on a UNIX/linux-ish system, and you're looking for a list of words (and not definitions/pronunciations) check in /usr/share/dict. Most systems I have worked on have /usr/share/dict/words which is a list of English words, one per line. (/usr/share/dict + grep makes an excellent scrabble cheating tool, by the way :) You might also want to check out the `Lingua::` modules in CPAN. There may be something in there that you'd find useful. Alan	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Looking for ascii dictionary... by cacharbe (Curate) on Mar 28, 2002 at 21:21 UTC
Here is a link to three different dictionaries. Be sure to keep us up-to-date with what you come up with, sounds interesting. C-.	[reply]