jifbot

Twitter bot fixing English by following the lead of GIF.

Tweeting four times daily at @jifbot!

1. Pick a random word beginning with G, traditionally pronounced with a hard G.

2. Fix it by putting a J at the start instead.

3. Find a tweet containing both gif and jif.

4. Replace gif with the random word and jif with the fixed word.

5. Tweet it!

Credits

data/hard-g-words.txt is a list of words pronounced with a hard G, grepped from the free Carnegie Mellon University Pronouncing Dictionary (version 0.7b)). CMUdict is Copyright (C) 1993-2014 by Carnegie Mellon University, and use of this dictionary for any research or commercial purpose is completely unrestricted, and the same applies to hard-g-words.txt. Thank you CMU!