Comments on: RESTful Rhyme Dictionary Web Service

By: Joshua Pritikin

Joshua Pritikin — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:36:35 +0000

Does it match on letter sequences or phonetically (e.g. soundex)?

By: pj4533

pj4533 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 05:43:06 +0000

hey man, I used your service in a Google Wave robot. (Fezziky) If you are on there you can add it at fezzikybot@appspot.com

Still in progress…

By: DK

DK — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:35:20 +0000

Hi Aza. This is a great service you’ve built. I was trying to figure out a way to use your JSON output in Y! Pipes. Is it possible?

By: David

David — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:48:04 +0000

This is pretty fun. Nice work.

By: jr

jr — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:12:11 +0000

you are awesome

By: Anand Agarawala

Anand Agarawala — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:47:30 +0000

Awesome! This is gonna make writin’ my rhymes so much easier son!

ps, what data source are you using for the actual rhymes?

anand

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:07:13 +0000

Actually such a website does exist – rhymezone.com.
Great work with yours though!

By: Nortius Maximus

Nortius Maximus — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:22:21 +0000

One of those amusing “rhymes” for Chuck Norris is faulty. The accent for that three-syllable word is on the first syllable, and the second syllable is not pronounced with a long O.

Also, no rhymes for Raskin? I’m just askin’.

By: Andy Fisher

Andy Fisher — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:41:16 +0000

q=interrupt – ["corrupt"]

q=corrupt – []

—

q=vapid – ["rapid"]

q=rapid – []

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q=palance – ["balance"]

q=balance – []

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q=vallance – ["balance"]

q=balance – []

* Palance & Vallance appear to have no wordly function beyond being surnames.

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q=applaud, laud, jawed

returns

["broad", "fraud", "abroad"]

When ‘broad’, ‘fraud’, or ‘abroad’ is queried all that is returned is the above list minus whichever word was queried.

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q=broach

returns

["coach", "roach", "approach"]

Same as above, ‘broach’ is not returned when one of these three words is queried.

Thought this might be helpful if you had noticed any other kinks.

Otherwise, bravo!

I had an idea for a rhyming app just recently.

Is the source dictionary available?

By: Laurens Holst

Laurens Holst — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:30:24 +0000

Most likely it works somewhat differently, because the sounds are different. But a generic system with different sets of basic rules and dictionaries should be able to cover quite a number of languages, even if it doesn’t cover the more exotic ones.

Just getting your hands on rule-sets for languages you do not know is the hard part, I guess :). Maybe you know some other languages well enough yourself, or maybe others would like to contribute.

Anyway, it’s just an idea :).