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Chris Davies
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Suffix search

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I've made a page which allows you to search for all words in ODE with a specified suffix (e.g. -ium).

http://www.phptests.f-snet.com/suffix.php

(It's called phptests because, when I registered it, I was new to PHP and didn't yet have my own server).
Hope it's useful/entertaining.
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That's really cool. Nice one.
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Chris Davies wrote:I've made a page which allows you to search for all words in ODE with a specified suffix (e.g. -ium).

http://www.phptests.f-snet.com/suffix.php

(It's called phptests because, when I registered it, I was new to PHP and didn't yet have my own server).
Hope it's useful/entertaining.
Nice one, I think Joseph Bolas just had an accident in his pants!
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Innis Carson
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Wow, good idea. This will help answer some of the curious word-related thoughts I sometimes have. Nicely done.
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Chris Davies
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Thanks for the nice comments. I've slightly updated the page - now each word in the results links to its relevant page at onelook.com
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I don't know about others but I think a prefix search would be really useful too - that way you could see all the possible under/over, up/down words. Good little tool Chris, thanks.
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Chris Davies
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Jimmy Gough wrote:I don't know about others but I think a prefix search would be really useful too - that way you could see all the possible under/over, up/down words. Good little tool Chris, thanks.
Already done one:

http://www.phptests.f-snet.com/prefix.php

I forgot to mention it :)
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Where? is? this? be-ing? host-ed? now?
Living life in a gyratory circus kind of way.
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Derek Hazell wrote:Where? is? this? be-ing? host-ed? now?
http://www.apterous.org/lexplorer.php
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