hedges

List of supposed English (both British and American) hedge words.

Install

This package is ESM only: Node 12+ is needed to use it and it must be imported instead of required.

npm:

npm install hedges

Use

import {hedges} from 'hedges'

console.log(hedges.length) //=> 162

console.log(hedges.slice(0, 10))

Yields:

[ 'a bit',
  'about',
  'actually',
  'allege',
  'alleged',
  'almost',
  'almost never',
  'always',
  'and all that',
  'and so forth' ]

API

This package exports the following identifiers: hedges. There is no default export.

hedges

Roughly, hedges exposes information as a list of strings (Array.<string>).

Support

For a complete list of supported hedge words and phrases, like, see data.txt.

Note that the words listed in hedges are speculated to be hedges, although perhaps not.

Related

• buzzwords — List of buzzwords
• dale-chall — List of familiar American-English words (1995)
• fillers — List of filler words
• profanities — List of profane words
• spache — List of simple American-English words (1974)
• weasels — List of weasel words

License

MIT © Titus Wormer