# Re: Shirt Reader (#140)

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-shirt-reader-140/115210>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [September 21, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-shirt-reader-140/115210 "2007-09-21T19:24:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![steve\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@steve\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steve_d)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 7:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-shirt-reader-140/115210/1 "2007-09-21T19:24:35Z")

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How about we post our lists of t-shirt phrases and what word we expect  
to be in the possible matches list to help each other test our  
solutions. Here’s mine:

```
expectations = {
  %w[e scent shells] => 'essentials',
  %w[q all if i] => 'qualify',
  %w[fan task tick] => 'fantastic',
  %w[b you tea full] => 'beautiful',
  %w[fun duh mint all] => 'fundamental',
  %w[s cape] => 'escape',
  %w[pan z] => 'pansy',
  %w[n gauge] => 'engage',
  %w[cap tin] => 'captain',
  %w[g rate full] => 'grateful',
  %w[re late shun ship] => 'relationship',
  %w[con grad yeul 8] => 'congratulate',
  %w[2 burr q low sis] => 'tuberculosis',
}

```

- steve

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**Author:** ![steve\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@steve\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steve_d)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-shirt-reader-140/115210/2 "2007-09-21T21:52:48Z")

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On Sep 21, 11:23 am, steve d [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> ```
> %w[con grad yeul 8] => 'congratulate',
> 
> ```

%w[con grad yule 8 shins] =\> ‘congratulations’,

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**Author:** ![steve\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@steve\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steve_d)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-shirt-reader-140/115210/3 "2007-09-22T02:17:08Z")

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2007/9/21, steve d [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid):

> ```
> %w[fun duh mint all] => 'fundamental',
> 
> ```
> 
> - steve

Some more:

a brie vie a shun =\> abbreviation  
pheemeeneeneetee =\> femininity  
me c c p =\> Mississippi  
art fork =\> aardvark  
liberty giblet =\> flibbertigibbet  
zoo key knee =\> I would’ve expected “zucchini”, but my script  
says  
“sicken”…  
you’ll tight =\> yuletide  
Luke I like =\> lookalike  
mah deux mah zeal =\> mademoiselle  
may gel omen yak =\> megalomaniac  
half tell mall eau gist =\> ophthalmologist

Enjoy,  
R.

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**Author:** ![steve\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@steve\_d](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/steve_d)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-shirt-reader-140/115210/4 "2007-09-21T20:46:40Z")

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On Sep 21, 2007, at 12:23 PM, steve d wrote:

> ```
> %w[s cape] => 'escape',
> %w[pan z] => 'pansy',
> %w[n gauge] => 'engage',
> %w[cap tin] => 'captain',
> %w[g rate full] => 'grateful',
> %w[re late shun ship] => 'relationship',
> %w[con grad yeul 8] => 'congratulate',
> %w[2 burr q low sis] => 'tuberculosis',
> }
> 
> ```

Wow. Awesome. Thanks.

James Edward G. II