![]() In the Korean language, as well as most every other modern language, there are a plethora of loan-words from English. Consequently, I am a product of both my U.S. They infused and comingled their culture with their new environment – and, at times, even adopted American culture and replaced their own. Naturally, my parents brought their culture and language with them. (And if by any chance you might come across any accessibility hiccups, I’d consider it a huge favor if you were to let me know.I grew up as a second generation Korean-American, meaning my parents immigrated from Korea to the United States and I was born here in America. So if you might use a screen reader or other assistive technologies, the site should hopefully work well. ![]() Accessibility means a lot to me, and I’ve done my best to ensure that the site meets the WCAG 2.1 accessibility guidelines (level AA).(Note, though, that you would need to load the page in your browser ahead of your flight.) Because the code all runs locally, this also means that you can use Ashley’s Ngram Helper even if you might not have Internet access, like if you might be on a plane.In fact, the code all runs through JavaScript locally, so any data that you enter never even travels to the server. None of the data that you enter is stored anywhere.So for example, if you were to enter the letters danhiku, the site wouldn’t hold back from displaying dan among the results for trigrams-because even though Dan may be a real world in Real Life, the word dan isn’t a spoiler in the context of the Spelling Bee because the Spelling Bee doesn’t accept proper nouns. In part because the Times doesn’t accept proper nouns for the Spelling Bee, Ashley’s Ngram Helper doesn’t consider proper nouns to be “real words” in the context of its usual behavior of hiding real words from the results.And that conveys that ing is English’s third most common trigram. So for example, if you were to enter oisthgn and if you were to uncheck the Omit the ngrams’ rankings checkbox, that would display ing (#3) among the list of matching trigrams. If you uncheck that, that’ll display the ranking number next to each matching ngram within the results. This next part is mostly just for grins, but the site also offers a checkbox for Omit the ngrams’ rankings that’s checked by default-but you can uncheck it if you want to.Although the Ngram Helper hides real words from its results by default, if you might prefer to see real words as well, there’s a checkbox for Hide real words within the results that you can uncheck if you had wanted to. ![]() There may be times where you might prefer just smaller hints rather than bigger hints, and along those lines, the Ngram Helper includes a set of radio buttons that let you choose from having the web app only show bigrams within its results show bigrams and trigrams or show bigrams, trigrams, and quadrigrams.(In contrast, with the nonword results that I had mentioned earlier-like onan or onal-those alone hopefully won’t spoil the puzzle since ngrams like onan or onal aren’t words in and of themselves, and those necessarily have to be combined with additional letters to form real words.) So for example-once again using yesterday’s letter sequence of rouajln-the Ngram Helper will by default omit matches like noon and roll because those are real words that might be spoilery. The web app also checks each potential match against a dictionary of around 50,000 words-and it won’t display those matches by default so as not to inadvertently reveal any spoilers. (And it knows that the Spelling Bee lets you reuse letters, so its list of results will also include quadrigrams like allo and nall.) So for instance, if you were to enter rouajln, it’ll tell you that that matches bigrams like an, on, and or trigrams like ona, oun, and nal and quadrigrams like onal, onan, and roun. Here’s how it works: You can enter a sequence of letters-such as perhaps rouajln if you were wanting some hints for yesterday’s puzzle-and it’ll compare those letters against lists of the most common bigrams, trigrams, and quadrigrams.Īnd then it’ll tell you what matches it found to help get the wheels turning for those sorts of words. So I decided to write a web app, Ashley’s Ngram Helper, to help with this.
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