https://github.com/hugovk/jifbot

Twitter bot fixing English by following the lead of GIF
https://github.com/hugovk/jifbot

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Twitter bot fixing English by following the lead of GIF

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hugovk/jifbot
• Owner: hugovk
• Created: 2015-04-26T09:34:17.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-04-29T05:47:09.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-02T01:17:59.895Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: bot, gif, jif, twitterbot
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://twitter.com/jifbot
• Size: 145 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# jifbot

Twitter bot fixing English by following the lead of GIF.

Tweeting four times daily at **[![](https://abs.twimg.com/favicons/favicon.ico)@jifbot](https://twitter.com/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](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))](http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict). 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!