diff --git a/lib/readfile.rb b/lib/readfile.rb
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+
+def readFile(file)
+  return File.read(file)
+end
+
+
+def getWords(text)
+  text.gsub!(/[^A-Za-z ]/,'')
+  data = Hash.new
+  temparray = text.to_s.split(" ").map(&:to_s)
+  for word in temparray
+      if(data.has_key?(word))
+        data[word] += 1
+      else
+        data[word] = 1
+      end
+  end
+  return data
+end
+
+def printWords(data)
+  data = data.sort_by { |key, value| value }.reverse
+  data.each do |key, value|
+    puts key.to_s + ' ' + value.to_s
+  end
+end
+
+
+text = readFile("/Users/apetit/CountingWords/speech.txt")
+data = getWords(text)
+printWords(data)
diff --git a/spec/readfile_spec.rb b/spec/readfile_spec.rb
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+require 'rspec'
+require_relative '../lib/readfile.rb'
+
+describe 'Number of words' do
+    it 'get words return the proper number' do
+      expect(getWords("one two three four").count).to eq 4
+    end
+end
+
+describe 'Accounts for duplicates' do
+    it 'same word only gets counted once' do
+      expect(getWords("one two three one")["one"]).to eq 2
+      expect(getWords("one two three one").count).to eq 3
+    end
+end
+
+describe 'No Special Chars' do
+    it 'No Special Chars' do
+      expect(getWords("one two! one")["two"]).to eq 1
+      expect(getWords("one two. one")["two"]).to eq 1
+      expect(getWords("one two- one")["two"]).to eq 1
+      expect(getWords("one two? one")["two"]).to eq 1
+    end
+end