diff --git a/countWords.rb b/countWords.rb
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+file = File.open("speech.txt", "r")
+content = file.read
+frequency = Hash.new(0)
+wordcount = content.split(" ")
+wordcount.each do |w|
+  w.gsub!(/\W|_/,"")
+  frequency[w] += 1
+end
+frequency = frequency.sort_by {|word,count| count}.reverse
+frequency.each do |key,value|
+  puts "#{key}:#{value}"
+end
+file.close