Simple request for Perl programmer from an ESL teacher

[lisapaloma]

I once had a word list in which the words were spelled backward (e.g., yranoitcid), but it got left on an old computer. I would love to have such a list again, so that I can do things like find a lot of examples of words that end in -ate. A word list spelled correctly but sorted from end to beginning would be equally nice.

I understand that in Perl a one-line program can do this, (my Google search found a forum from 2005 where someone had answered a similar request: http://ask.metafilter.com/16262/Where-to-find-a-dictionary-of-words-that-are-spelled-backwards, but the link to the output was dead) so I'm wondering if someone could take a moment and generate one for me, since I am not a programmer. A .txt document of the result would be greatly appreciated.

[BC_Programmer]

Reversed Dictionary words:

http://bc-programming.com/misc/dictreverse.txt

Words that end with ate:

http://bc-programming.com/misc/endate.txt


The dictionary itself is from the dictionary file that was included with Linux Mint 11, I believe.

[lisapaloma]

Exactly what I wanted! Thank you so much!

[lisapaloma]

Could you do one more favor for me? I tried to do this myself, but the file is too big for Word to handle. If you could do a simple alphabetic sort on the complete list (with the sort starting from what is now the first letter), that will give me all the words with -ate together, all the words with -tion together, all the words with -ify, all the words with -ize, etc. I'm sorry I wasn't quite clear about that. Thank you.

I've attached a sort as an example, but it only includes the first three pages.

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[BC_Programmer]

Could you do one more favor for me? I tried to do this myself, but the file is too big for Word to handle. If you could do a simple alphabetic sort on the complete list (with the sort starting from what is now the first letter), that will give me all the words with -ate together, all the words with -tion together, all the words with -ify, all the words with -ize, etc. I'm sorry I wasn't quite clear about that. Thank you.

I've attached a sort as an example, but it only includes the first three pages.

So, sort based on the reverse of the word?

http://bc-programming.com/misc/sortreverse.txt

[lisapaloma]

Beautiful! Thank you so much!