Module: Commonsense::BasicEnglish

Defined in:

lib/commonsense/basic_english.rb

Constant Summary

WORDS =

[
  'come',
  'get',
  'give',
  'go',
  'keep',
  'let',
  'make',
  'put',
  'seem',
  'take',
  'be',
  'do',
  'have',
  'say',
  'see',
  'send',
  'may',
  'will',
  'about',
  'across',
  'after',
  'against',
  'among',
  'at',
  'before',
  'between',
  'by',
  'down',
  'from',
  'in',
  'off',
  'on',
  'over',
  'through',
  'to',
  'under',
  'up',
  'with',
  'as',
  'for',
  'of',
  'till',
  'than',
  'a',
  'the',
  'all',
  'any',
  'every',
  'little',
  'much',
  'no',
  'other',
  'some',
  'such',
  'that',
  'this',
  'I',
  'he',
  'you',
  'who',
  'and',
  'because',
  'but',
  'or',
  'if',
  'though',
  'while',
  'how',
  'when',
  'where',
  'why',
  'again',
  'ever',
  'far',
  'forward',
  'here',
  'near',
  'now',
  'out',
  'still',
  'then',
  'there',
  'together',
  'well',
  'almost',
  'enough',
  'even',
  'not',
  'only',
  'quite',
  'so',
  'very',
  'tomorrow',
  'yesterday',
  'north',
  'south',
  'east',
  'west',
  'please',
  'yes',
  'account',
  'act',
  'addition',
  'adjustment',
  'advertisement',
  'agreement',
  'air',
  'amount',
  'amusement',
  'animal',
  'answer',
  'apparatus',
  'approval',
  'argument',
  'art',
  'attack',
  'attempt',
  'attention',
  'attraction',
  'authority',
  'back',
  'balance',
  'base',
  'behavior',
  'belief',
  'birth',
  'bit',
  'bite',
  'blood',
  'blow',
  'body',
  'brass',
  'bread',
  'breath',
  'brother',
  'building',
  'burn',
  'burst',
  'business',
  'butter',
  'canvas',
  'care',
  'cause',
  'chalk',
  'chance',
  'change',
  'cloth',
  'coal',
  'color',
  'comfort',
  'committee',
  'company',
  'comparison',
  'competition',
  'condition',
  'connection',
  'control',
  'cook',
  'copper',
  'copy',
  'cork',
  'cotton',
  'cough',
  'country',
  'cover',
  'crack',
  'credit',
  'crime',
  'crush',
  'cry',
  'urrent',
  'curve',
  'damage',
  'danger',
  'daughter',
  'day',
  'death',
  'debt',
  'decision',
  'degree',
  'design',
  'desire',
  'destruction',
  'detail',
  'development',
  'digestion',
  'direction',
  'discovery',
  'discussion',
  'disease',
  'disgust',
  'distance',
  'distribution',
  'division',
  'doubt',
  'drink',
  'driving',
  'dust',
  'earth',
  'edge',
  'education',
  'effect',
  'end',
  'error',
  'event',
  'example',
  'exchange',
  'existence',
  'expansion',
  'experience',
  'expert',
  'fact',
  'fall',
  'family',
  'father',
  'fear',
  'feeling',
  'fiction',
  'field',
  'fight',
  'fire',
  'flame',
  'flight',
  'flower',
  'fold',
  'food',
  'force',
  'form',
  'friend',
  'front',
  'fruit',
  'glass',
  'gold',
  'government',
  'grain',
  'grass',
  'grip',
  'group',
  'growth',
  'guide',
  'harbor',
  'harmony',
  'hate',
  'hearing',
  'heat',
  'help',
  'history',
  'hole',
  'hope',
  'hour',
  'humor',
  'ice',
  'idea',
  'impulse',
  'increase',
  'industry',
  'ink',
  'insect',
  'instrument',
  'insurance',
  'interest',
  'invention',
  'iron',
  'jelly',
  'join',
  'journey',
  'judge',
  'jump',
  'kick',
  'kiss',
  'knowledge',
  'land',
  'language',
  'laugh',
  'law',
  'lead',
  'learning',
  'leather',
  'letter',
  'level',
  'lift',
  'light',
  'limit',
  'linen',
  'liquid',
  'list',
  'look',
  'loss',
  'love',
  'machine',
  'man',
  'manager',
  'mark',
  'market',
  'mass',
  'meal',
  'measure',
  'meat',
  'meeting',
  'memory',
  'metal',
  'middle',
  'milk',
  'mind',
  'mine',
  'minute',
  'mist',
  'money',
  'month',
  'morning',
  'other',
  'motion',
  'mountain',
  'move',
  'music',
  'name',
  'nation',
  'need',
  'news',
  'night',
  'noise',
  'note',
  'number',
  'observation',
  'offer',
  'oil',
  'operation',
  'opinion',
  'order',
  'organization',
  'ornament',
  'owner',
  'page',
  'pain',
  'paint',
  'paper',
  'part',
  'paste',
  'payment',
  'peace',
  'person',
  'place',
  'plant',
  'play',
  'pleasure',
  'point',
  'poison',
  'polish',
  'porter',
  'position',
  'powder',
  'power',
  'price',
  'print',
  'process',
  'produce',
  'profit',
  'property',
  'prose',
  'protest',
  'pull',
  'punishment',
  'purpose',
  'push',
  'quality',
  'question',
  'rain',
  'range',
  'rate',
  'ray',
  'reaction',
  'reading',
  'reason',
  'record',
  'regret',
  'relation',
  'religion',
  'representative',
  'request',
  'respect',
  'rest',
  'reward',
  'rhythm',
  'rice',
  'river',
  'road',
  'roll',
  'room',
  'rub',
  'rule',
  'run',
  'salt',
  'sand',
  'scale',
  'science',
  'sea',
  'seat',
  'secretary',
  'selection',
  'self',
  'sense',
  'servant',
  'sex',
  'shade',
  'shake',
  'shame',
  'shock',
  'side',
  'sign',
  'silk',
  'silver',
  'sister',
  'size',
  'sky',
  'sleep',
  'slip',
  'slope',
  'smash',
  'smell',
  'smile',
  'smoke',
  'sneeze',
  'snow',
  'soap',
  'society',
  'son',
  'song',
  'sort',
  'sound',
  'soup',
  'space',
  'stage',
  'start',
  'statement',
  'steam',
  'steel',
  'step',
  'stitch',
  'stone',
  'stop',
  'story',
  'stretch',
  'structure',
  'substance',
  'sugar',
  'suggestion',
  'summer',
  'support',
  'surprise',
  'swim',
  'system',
  'talk',
  'taste',
  'tax',
  'teaching',
  'tendency',
  'test',
  'theory',
  'thing',
  'thought',
  'thunder',
  'time',
  'tin',
  'top',
  'touch',
  'trade',
  'transport',
  'trick',
  'trouble',
  'turn',
  'twist',
  'unit',
  'use',
  'value',
  'verse',
  'vessel',
  'view',
  'voice',
  'walk',
  'war',
  'wash',
  'waste',
  'water',
  'wave',
  'wax',
  'way',
  'weather',
  'week',
  'weight',
  'wind',
  'wine',
  'winter',
  'woman',
  'wood',
  'wool',
  'word',
  'work',
  'wound',
  'writing',
  'year',
  'angle',
  'ant',
  'apple',
  'arch',
  'arm',
  'army',
  'baby',
  'bag',
  'ball',
  'band',
  'basin',
  'basket',
  'bath',
  'bed',
  'bee',
  'bell',
  'berry',
  'bird',
  'blade',
  'board',
  'boat',
  'bone',
  'book',
  'boot',
  'bottle',
  'box',
  'boy',
  'brain',
  'brake',
  'branch',
  'brick',
  'bridge',
  'brush',
  'bucket',
  'bulb',
  'button',
  'cake',
  'camera',
  'card',
  'cart',
  'carriage',
  'cat',
  'chain',
  'cheese',
  'chest',
  'chin',
  'church',
  'circle',
  'clock',
  'cloud',
  'coat',
  'collar',
  'comb',
  'cord',
  'cow',
  'cup',
  'curtain',
  'cushion',
  'dog',
  'door',
  'drain',
  'drawer',
  'dress',
  'drop',
  'ear',
  'egg',
  'engine',
  'eye',
  'face',
  'farm',
  'feather',
  'finger',
  'fish',
  'flag',
  'floor',
  'fly',
  'foot',
  'fork',
  'fowl',
  'frame',
  'garden',
  'girl',
  'glove',
  'goat',
  'gun',
  'hair',
  'hammer',
  'hand',
  'hat',
  'head',
  'heart',
  'hook',
  'horn',
  'horse',
  'hospital',
  'house',
  'island',
  'jewel',
  'kettle',
  'key',
  'knee',
  'knife',
  'knot',
  'leaf',
  'leg',
  'library',
  'line',
  'lip',
  'lock',
  'map',
  'match',
  'monkey',
  'moon',
  'mouth',
  'muscle',
  'nail',
  'neck',
  'needle',
  'nerve',
  'net',
  'nose',
  'nut',
  'office',
  'orange',
  'oven',
  'parcel',
  'pen',
  'pencil',
  'picture',
  'pig',
  'pin',
  'pipe',
  'plane',
  'plate',
  'plough/plow',
  'pocket',
  'pot',
  'potato',
  'prison',
  'pump',
  'rail',
  'rat',
  'receipt',
  'ring',
  'rod',
  'roof',
  'root',
  'sail',
  'school',
  'scissors',
  'screw',
  'seed',
  'sheep',
  'shelf',
  'ship',
  'shirt',
  'shoe',
  'skin',
  'skirt',
  'snake',
  'sock',
  'spade',
  'sponge',
  'spoon',
  'spring',
  'square',
  'stamp',
  'star',
  'station',
  'stem',
  'stick',
  'stocking',
  'stomach',
  'store',
  'street',
  'sun',
  'table',
  'tail',
  'thread',
  'throat',
  'thumb',
  'ticket',
  'toe',
  'tongue',
  'tooth',
  'town',
  'train',
  'tray',
  'tree',
  'trousers',
  'umbrella',
  'wall',
  'watch',
  'wheel',
  'whip',
  'whistle',
  'window',
  'wing',
  'wire',
  'worm',
  'able',
  'acid',
  'angry',
  'automatic',
  'beautiful',
  'black',
  'boiling',
  'bright',
  'broken',
  'brown',
  'cheap',
  'chemical',
  'chief',
  'clean',
  'clear',
  'common',
  'complex',
  'conscious',
  'cut',
  'deep',
  'dependent',
  'early',
  'elastic',
  'electric',
  'equal',
  'fat',
  'fertile',
  'first',
  'fixed',
  'flat',
  'free',
  'frequent',
  'full',
  'general',
  'good',
  'great',
  'grey/gray',
  'hanging',
  'happy',
  'hard',
  'healthy',
  'high',
  'hollow',
  'important',
  'kind',
  'like',
  'living',
  'long',
  'male',
  'married',
  'material',
  'medical',
  'military',
  'natural',
  'necessary',
  'new',
  'normal',
  'open',
  'parallel',
  'past',
  'physical',
  'political',
  'poor',
  'possible',
  'present',
  'private',
  'probable',
  'quick',
  'quiet',
  'ready',
  'red',
  'regular',
  'responsible',
  'right',
  'round',
  'same',
  'second',
  'separate',
  'serious',
  'sharp',
  'smooth',
  'sticky',
  'stiff',
  'straight',
  'strong',
  'sudden',
  'sweet',
  'tall',
  'thick',
  'tight',
  'tired',
  'true',
  'violent',
  'waiting',
  'warm',
  'wet',
  'wide',
  'wise',
  'yellow',
  'young',
  'awake',
  'bad',
  'bent',
  'bitter',
  'blue',
  'certain',
  'cold',
  'complete',
  'cruel',
  'dark',
  'dead',
  'dear',
  'delicate',
  'different',
  'dirty',
  'dry',
  'false',
  'feeble',
  'female',
  'foolish',
  'future',
  'green',
  'ill',
  'last',
  'late',
  'left',
  'loose',
  'loud',
  'low',
  'mixed',
  'narrow',
  'old',
  'opposite',
  'public',
  'rough',
  'sad',
  'safe',
  'secret',
  'short',
  'shut',
  'simple',
  'slow',
  'small',
  'soft',
  'solid',
  'special',
  'strange',
  'thin',
  'white',
  'wrong'
]

Class Method Summary

• .fuzzy_valid?(word) ⇒ Boolean

  Tests whether a word is included, possibly with de-caitalization.

• .valid?(word) ⇒ Boolean

  Tests whether a word is included in our version of Ogden’s Basic English word list, and therefore suitable as, e.g.

Class Method Details

.fuzzy_valid?(word) ⇒ Boolean

Tests whether a word is included, possibly with de-caitalization.

word should be a case-sensitive string.

Returns:

• (Boolean)

# File 'lib/commonsense/basic_english.rb', line 873

def self.fuzzy_valid?(word)
  word_decapitalized = word.downcase if word.downcase.capitalize == word


  valid? word or ( word_decapitalized and valid? word_decapitalized )
end

.valid?(word) ⇒ Boolean

Tests whether a word is included in our version of Ogden’s Basic English word list, and therefore suitable as, e.g. a mid-sentence word.

List taken from ogden.basic-english.org/words.html in March 2016.

word should be a case-sensitive string.

Returns:

• (Boolean)

# File 'lib/commonsense/basic_english.rb', line 864

def self.valid?(word)
  WORDS.include? word
end