# Re: Found Senryu (#224)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-found-senryu-224/179065>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 16, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-found-senryu-224/179065 "2009-11-16T22:04:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![wkm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@wkm](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/wkm)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-found-senryu-224/179065/1 "2009-11-16T22:04:05Z")

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> I would have loved to have done this quiz but:
> 
> 1. I had no idea where to start with a ‘syllable-counting’ algorithm

Yeah, that stumped me too. I felt like it was cheating a bit to use the  
Lingua::EN package. But interestingly, they use a pronunciation  
dictionary from CMU to do the counting, so we could just skip the Lingua  
step and implement it directly.

> 1. I had so much to do that when I thought about looking for some,  
> you’d already posted a solution.

🙂