This morning's commute and other commuting stories

@Ludd > Can you fit all the words in that book into a single tweet? Just wondering.

No.

$ head geah.txt
I am Sam

I am Sam
Sam I am

That Sam-I-am
That Sam-I-am!
I do not like
that Sam-I-am
$ cat geah.txt | sed -e 's/-/ /g' | tr ' ' '\n' | tr A-Z a-z | sed -e 's/[.!,?]*$//' | sort -u | grep -v "^$" | head
a
am
and
anywhere
are
be
boat
box
car
$ cat geah.txt | sed -e 's/-/ /g' | tr ' ' '\n' | tr A-Z a-z | sed -e 's/[.!,?]*$//' | grep -v "^$" | sort -u | wc
     50      50     222

So 172 characters if you concatenate all of the words (with no punctuation) without any spaces. 221 characters if you want a space between each word.

$ cat geah.txt | sed -e 's/-/ /g' | tr ' ' '\n' | tr A-Z a-z | sed -e 's/[.!,?]*$//' | sort -u | grep -v "^$" | tr '\n' ' '
a am and anywhere are be boat box car could dark do eat eggs fox goat good green ham here house i if in let like may me mouse not on or rain sam say see so thank that the them there they train tree try will with would you