Ogden words by length. - joneworlds@mailbox.org There's this minimal English vocab list out there called "Ogden's English", or something. You can look it up. Anyways, it's like less than 900 words, just the important ones. (In their opinion, at least. Like, it's got "political" as important enough, but not "pancake"? Whatever, dude. I disagree.) Anyways, it's a good enough list to use for word games and toys and such, if your computering hobby has you doing stuff like that. This file has all the words sorted out by length. And so you can use a program like below to choose a random 3 letter word for example. You save this very file you are reading to "ogden-sorted-length.txt" and run the program below. 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