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.TH AUTOPUN 6
.SH NAME
autopun - Phonetically Reparse an English Phrase 
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B autopun
.B \-e
English_dict
.br
.B autopun
.B \-p
Phone_dict
.br
.B autopun
.RB [ \-e
English_dict]
.B \-c
.B \-p
Phone_dict
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-e
specifies which English word list to read instead of the default,
/usr/dict/words.
.TP
.B \-p
specifies the encoded phonetic word list to read instead of an
English word list (see
.BR \-c )\.
.TP
.B \-c
creates (rather than reads) the given phonetic word list.
The
.B \-c
option requires that the
.B \-p
option be used.
(This is how a phonetic word list is created.)
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
Autopun generates (to standard-out) a table of phonetic reparsings
of the given English phrase (from standard-in).  The table is useful
for generating rebus, punch-lines for shaggy-dog stories, and other
perversions of spoken English.
.LP
For efficiency, autopun can read from a previously-encoded phonetic
word list rather than an unencoded English dictionary.
.SH EXAMPLES
.IP ""
$ autopun -c -p phdict
.LP
If the phrase "Merry Christmas" is typed as standard-input to the
above command, autopun will generate the following table and (as
a side-effect) create the phonetic word list, phdict, for later use.
.LP
.nf
.na
	Merry Christmas
	00:
	  merry:04 murre:03 moo:02
	02:
	  wreak:05 rick:05 reek:05 re:04
	03:
	  eke:05
	04:
	  Christmas:$  Christ:09
	05:
	  wrist:09 re:07
	07:
	  St.:09 St:09
	09:
	  mush:$  mouse:$  moss:$  mass:$  mash:$ 
.ad
.fi
.LP
To (manually) generate a new phrase from the above table, start
at the list marked "0".  Pick an interesting word from that list,
such as "moo".  Go to the list whose number appears to the right
of the selected word (list 02 in this case).  Repeat the process
until the table says to go to list "$".  Following this procedure
might produce the phrase "Moo wreak wrist moss".
.SH SPECIAL\ CONSIDERATIONS
.LP
Autopun blindly believes that the word list contains all interesting
words and that everything in the word list is interesting.  Careful
editing of the English word list can correct these problems.
.LP
Autopun doesn't know how to pronounce abbreviations, punctuation,
or numerals.
.SH FILES
.LP
/usr/dict/words
.SH AUTHOR
.LP
Brad Needham (bradn@tekig4.TEK.COM)