Counting Syllables

[Craig Newman]

Brian.

Storage space should not be an issue. A typical dictionary , whether American (191,000)  or British (280,000), with a median word length of about 8 chars, still only occupies a handful of MB of storage.

Craig

> On Mar 22, 2022, at 10:25 AM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, that is where I’m at.  An existing database would make things a lot easier.
> 
> Rick
> 
>> On Mar 22, 2022, at 9:06 AM, Craig Newman via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> If you have a database at all, it would cost nothing much in speed to just use the whole thing all the time. Put the database into an array, of the form:
>> “cat 1”
>> "chicken 2”
>> “elephant 3”
>> ‘miaou 1"
>> …
>> 
>> The hard part is finding that database. It would take quite a while to build and finalize your own.
>> 
>> Craig
> 
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