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From: fass@cs.sfu.ca (Dan Fass)
Subject: Re: One-syllable English words
Message-ID: <1995Jan19.195302.5285@cs.sfu.ca>
Organization: Faculty of Applied Science, Simon Fraser University
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 19:53:02 GMT
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In article <3ffnbd$hhf@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, mmcohen@dewi.ucsc.edu (Dr.
Michael M. Cohen) wrote:

> I'm seeking a list of all one-syllable English words.  Any pointers?
> Would be nice if it also included pronunciations in ARPABET or ?
>         TIA, MMCohen

A list of many one-syllable English words is extractable from a 
"Computer-usable" version of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
prepared and documented by Roger Mitton of Birkbeck College, London.
Mitton's version contains about 70,000 entries.  The dictionary is 
available free for research purposes (see documentation).

Documentation (text710.doc) and almost 9MB of data (text710.dat) are 
available by anonymous ftp: sable.ox.ac.uk/pub/ota/public/dicts/710

Every entry in text710.doc includes the number of syllables for the word
defined, given as the first character in the fourth column of an entry 
(some examples are given below).

bait                   beIt                   J0%,K6%             12A,6A
baited                 'beItId                Jc%,Jd%             22A,6A
baiting                'beItIN                Jb%                 22A,6A   
baits                  beIts                  Ja%,Kj%             12A,6A
baize                  beIz                   L@%                 1
bake                   beIk                   J2%                 12A,2C,6A,22 
baked                  beIkt                  Jc%,Jd%             12A,2C,6A,22
bakelite               'beIk@laIt             L@%                 3
baker                  'beIk@R                K6%                 2    

- Dan Fass
  Natural Language Lsborstory, Simon Fraser University

