Learn more about the origins of words with the Etymology skill for Alexa on Amazon Echo.
Currently looking up words via the Online Etymology Dictionary (http://www.etymonline.com/) but look for more sources to be added soon.
The list of available words is 18,488.
TODO: Describe the installation process
TODO: setting up the skill
TODO: setting up lambda
"Alexa, ask Word Source about the word plant"
"Alexa, ask Word Source about the word car"
"Alexa, ask Word Source about the origin of the word colony"
Alexa skills support 60000 characters of custom slot types. Using a list of the top 10,000 most common words from Google it was pared down from ~75000 chars in vim with this commands: remove duplicate words with -s at the end
:g/[a-z]+s\n/d
Ideas for trimming larger word lists:
remove -ing words
:g/[a-z]+ing/d
remove -ly words
:g/[a-z]+ly/d
First version created after sitting in a chair reading a book, trying to get Alexa to tell me about the origin of a word. Looking things up on a normal computer is so distracting because I just start checking Reddit or reading the news.
Sean Fahey
Node and the Cheerio Package
20k word list which is based off the Google Books Ngram Corpus
TODO: Write license