I before E except after C: Difference between revisions

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It's a moot point whether one should include words beginning with "ei" or "ie" in this analysis as I've certainly never applied the rule to them and there are clearly a lot more of the former than the latter (22 to 1 for unixdict.txt). Despite this reservation I've included them anyway.

Also there are ~~three~~ words which fall into two categories and which have therefore been double-counted.

Also there are seven words which fall into two categories and which have therefore been double-counted.

<lang ecmascript>import "io" for File

import "/pattern" for Pattern

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System.print("and so are counted more than once:")

for (word in words) {

var tc1 = count1 + count2 + count3 + count4

var tc1 = count1 + count2 + count3 + count4 + count5 + count6

if (p1.isMatch(word)) count1 = count1 + 1

if (p2.isMatch(word)) count2 = count2 + 1

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if (word.startsWith("ie")) count5 = count5 + 1

if (word.startsWith("ei")) count6 = count6 + 1

var tc2 = count1 + count2 + count3 + count4

var tc2 = count1 + count2 + count3 + count4 + count5 + count6

if ((tc2 -tc1) > 1) System.print(" " + word)

}

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The following words fall into more than one category

and so are counted more than once:

eightieth

einstein

einsteinian

einsteinium

liechtenstein

meier