A silly program to check whether a word consists solely of chemical element symbols.
For example,
$ stack exec aang-exe -- wrestler
W Re S Tl Er
and sadly,
$ stack exec aang-exe -- haskell
$
- About 12.054% of the English dictionary can be written entirely as successive chemical element symbols.
This was checked against
/usr/share/dict/words(99171 words) of which 11954 came out as positive. - For the German dictionary
/usr/share/dict/ngerman(339099), the percentage amounts to around 8.333%, that is 28257 words. - The name Aang comes from the television series Avatar – The Last Airbender in which Aang, the main character, is the Lord of the Elements (pun intended).
