I found this book at a currently local bookstore called, creatively, Dollar Bookstore. It was a former Borders that was sold off and recommissioned as this new thing. This was very recently, as in the past two months.
When I first saw it, it struck me as a tool for a poet, or flowery prose writer. I loved it instantly. Here's a selection chosen at random:
(page 297)
PS /ps/ Medial -- two syllables
capsize chapstick chopsticks dipstick dropsy gypsum
And it goes on like that for twenty-eight words! It even recognizes compound nouns like "stop sign" and "step stool". How cool is that? Am I a gigantic nerd or what?
It turns out it is a tool, but not for writers. Communication Disorder Specialists use it to teach consonant sounds in the English language.
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