Comments on: Wordpress plugin: 100 words every high school graduate should know

By: Andrew Ferguson

Andrew Ferguson — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 08:59:55 +0000

Here’s the link to what I updated. I versioned it v0.3:
http://www.andrewferguson.net/wp-content/dl/wp/td100words.zip

In short, I inserted a word boundary into the regex (\b) and did some rudimentary suffix checking (s, d, ed, ing, ly, etc). I also went through the entire list and grabbed all the various inflections. To keep track of everything, I setup a 2D array with the first word being the “root” word, if you will. Other variations were added behind it.

Re-released under GPL.

By: TDavid

TDavid — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:49:43 +0000

Would think a little switch with an exact match for the pesky words like ‘belie’ would suffice. Feel free to send along your proposed solution to squash the gremlin, Andrew

iiq374 - a context checker would be a lot more than a short little hack lol.

By: Andrew Ferguson

Andrew Ferguson — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:09:37 +0000

I’ve coded up a potential workaround for the word matching issue. I can email it to you if you’d like.

By: iiq374

iiq374 — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:08:17 +0000

Of course I’m sure the point the original book was also making was “how many of these words do you use correctly? ;-D

By: darkmoon

darkmoon — Tue, 29 May 2007 14:55:01 +0000

Maybe they don’t need to know the words, and instead know the difference between “they’re, their, and there” :p

By: TDavid

TDavid — Tue, 29 May 2007 14:31:40 +0000

Jamie - thanks for the suggestion. Could be a good way to get readers involved in the quest toward 100

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 29 May 2007 14:09:00 +0000

Nice job. I ran this and found I’d used four of the words–need to step up a bit, I guess!

It would be nice if there were a “public” part of this plugin, so you could report on your usage to your readers. A widget, or something.

And put the words into your captcha list ; )