Automatically Generated Superheroine Names
Updated 2/25/2018 to add support for ‘mys’ words.
Do you often run into issues trying to name your female superheroes? Well, let me introduce you to my good friend,
grep -e ^mys -e ^mis /etc/dictionaries-common/words | sed 's/mis\|mys/Miss /' | sed -r 's/(^.| .)/\U&\E/g' | sed "s/'s$//" | sort | uniq
Your word list might not be at /etc/dictionaries-common, but everything else is pretty simple. Years of using Vim have caused the sed lobe of my brain to grow and pulsate, so it’s doing all the heavy lifting here. The plan here is to turn words like “mistrial” into names like “Miss Trial”.
So, the first thing we do is use grep to find every word starting with “mis” or “mys”. Simple enough. Then, we replace each “mis” or “mys” with “Miss “. Notice the space. The next sed command is the only one that’s actually hairy and that I had to look up. It matches every character that’s at the beginning of a line (with ^.) or after a space (with .), and replaces it with “Make the rest of the line uppercase, then the character we matched, then don’t change case the rest of the line.” Finally, we strip out all the duplicate words (uniq likes its input to be sorted) with an apostrophe s at the end. The list on my machine is here:
- Miss
- Miss Adventure
- Miss Adventures
- Miss Alignment
- Miss Alliance
- Miss Alliances
- Miss Anthrope
- Miss Anthropes
- Miss Anthropic
- Miss Anthropist
- Miss Anthropists
- Miss Anthropy
- Miss Application
- Miss Applied
- Miss Applies
- Miss Apply
- Miss Applying
- Miss Apprehend
- Miss Apprehended
- Miss Apprehending
- Miss Apprehends
- Miss Apprehension
- Miss Apprehensions
- Miss Appropriate
- Miss Appropriated
- Miss Appropriates
- Miss Appropriating
- Miss Appropriation
- Miss Appropriations
- Miss Begotten
- Miss Behave
- Miss Behaved
- Miss Behaves
- Miss Behaving
- Miss Behavior
- Miss Calculate
- Miss Calculated
- Miss Calculates
- Miss Calculating
- Miss Calculation
- Miss Calculations
- Miss Call
- Miss Called
- Miss Calling
- Miss Calls
- Miss Carriage
- Miss Carriages
- Miss Carried
- Miss Carries
- Miss Carry
- Miss Carrying
- Miss Cast
- Miss Casting
- Miss Casts
- Miss Cegenation
- Miss Cellaneous
- Miss Cellanies
- Miss Cellany
- Miss Chance
- Miss Chances
- Miss Chief
- Miss Chievous
- Miss Chievously
- Miss Chievousness
- Miss Conceive
- Miss Conceived
- Miss Conceives
- Miss Conceiving
- Miss Conception
- Miss Conceptions
- Miss Conduct
- Miss Conducted
- Miss Conducting
- Miss Conducts
- Miss Construction
- Miss Constructions
- Miss Construe
- Miss Construed
- Miss Construes
- Miss Construing
- Miss Count
- Miss Counted
- Miss Counting
- Miss Counts
- Miss Creant
- Miss Creants
- Miss Cue
- Miss Cued
- Miss Cues
- Miss Cuing
- Miss Deal
- Miss Dealing
- Miss Deals
- Miss Dealt
- Miss Deed
- Miss Deeds
- Miss Demeanor
- Miss Demeanors
- Miss Diagnose
- Miss Diagnosed
- Miss Diagnoses
- Miss Diagnosing
- Miss Diagnosis
- Miss Did
- Miss Direct
- Miss Directed
- Miss Directing
- Miss Direction
- Miss Directs
- Miss Do
- Miss Does
- Miss Doing
- Miss Doings
- Miss Done
- Miss Elf
- Miss Er
- Miss Erable
- Miss Erably
- Miss Eries
- Miss Erliness
- Miss Erly
- Miss Ers
- Miss Ery
- Miss Feasance
- Miss Fire
- Miss Fired
- Miss Fires
- Miss Firing
- Miss Fit
- Miss Fits
- Miss Fitted
- Miss Fitting
- Miss Fortune
- Miss Fortunes
- Miss Giving
- Miss Givings
- Miss Govern
- Miss Governed
- Miss Governing
- Miss Governs
- Miss Guide
- Miss Guided
- Miss Guidedly
- Miss Guides
- Miss Guiding
- Miss Handle
- Miss Handled
- Miss Handles
- Miss Handling
- Miss Hap
- Miss Haps
- Miss Hmash
- Miss Hmashes
- Miss Identified
- Miss Identifies
- Miss Identify
- Miss Identifying
- Miss Inform
- Miss Information
- Miss Informed
- Miss Informing
- Miss Informs
- Miss Interpret
- Miss Interpretation
- Miss Interpretations
- Miss Interpreted
- Miss Interpreting
- Miss Interprets
- Miss Judge
- Miss Judged
- Miss Judgement
- Miss Judgements
- Miss Judges
- Miss Judging
- Miss Judgment
- Miss Judgments
- Miss Laid
- Miss Lay
- Miss Laying
- Miss Lays
- Miss Lead
- Miss Leading
- Miss Leads
- Miss Led
- Miss Manage
- Miss Managed
- Miss Management
- Miss Manages
- Miss Managing
- Miss Match
- Miss Matched
- Miss Matches
- Miss Matching
- Miss Nomer
- Miss Nomers
- Miss Ogynist
- Miss Ogynistic
- Miss Ogynists
- Miss Ogyny
- Miss Place
- Miss Placed
- Miss Places
- Miss Placing
- Miss Play
- Miss Played
- Miss Playing
- Miss Plays
- Miss Print
- Miss Printed
- Miss Printing
- Miss Prints
- Miss Pronounce
- Miss Pronounced
- Miss Pronounces
- Miss Pronouncing
- Miss Pronunciation
- Miss Pronunciations
- Miss Quotation
- Miss Quotations
- Miss Quote
- Miss Quoted
- Miss Quotes
- Miss Quoting
- Miss Read
- Miss Reading
- Miss Readings
- Miss Reads
- Miss Represent
- Miss Representation
- Miss Representations
- Miss Represented
- Miss Representing
- Miss Represents
- Miss Rule
- Miss Ruled
- Miss Rules
- Miss Ruling
- Miss S
- Miss Sal
- Miss Sals
- Miss Sed
- Miss Ses
- Miss Shapen
- Miss Sile
- Miss Silery
- Miss Siles
- Miss Sing
- Miss Sion
- Miss Sionaries
- Miss Sionary
- Miss Sions
- Miss Sive
- Miss Sives
- Miss Spell
- Miss Spelled
- Miss Spelling
- Miss Spellings
- Miss Spells
- Miss Spelt
- Miss Spend
- Miss Spending
- Miss Spends
- Miss Spent
- Miss State
- Miss Stated
- Miss Statement
- Miss Statements
- Miss States
- Miss Stating
- Miss Step
- Miss Steps
- Miss T
- Miss Take
- Miss Taken
- Miss Takenly
- Miss Takes
- Miss Taking
- Miss Ted
- Miss Ter
- Miss Teries
- Miss Terious
- Miss Teriously
- Miss Teriousness
- Miss Ters
- Miss Tery
- Miss Tic
- Miss Tical
- Miss Tically
- Miss Ticism
- Miss Tics
- Miss Tier
- Miss Tiest
- Miss Tification
- Miss Tified
- Miss Tifies
- Miss Tify
- Miss Tifying
- Miss Tily
- Miss Time
- Miss Timed
- Miss Times
- Miss Timing
- Miss Tiness
- Miss Ting
- Miss Tique
- Miss Tletoe
- Miss Took
- Miss Translated
- Miss Treat
- Miss Treated
- Miss Treating
- Miss Treatment
- Miss Treats
- Miss Tress
- Miss Tresses
- Miss Trial
- Miss Trials
- Miss Trust
- Miss Trusted
- Miss Trustful
- Miss Trusting
- Miss Trusts
- Miss Ts
- Miss Ty
- Miss Type
- Miss Types
- Miss Typing
- Miss Understand
- Miss Understanding
- Miss Understandings
- Miss Understands
- Miss Understood
- Miss Use
- Miss Used
- Miss Uses
- Miss Using