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+freq = Hash.new(0)
+file = File.open("speech.txt")
+file.read.downcase.gsub(/[^a-z ]/, " ").scan(/\b[a-z]{1,16}\b/){|word| freq[word] += 1}
+# could use .gsub(/[:punct:]/, " ") too remove all special characters, or .gsub(/[^a-z ]/, " ") to remove  everything that is not a through z.
+
+freq = freq.sort_by{|a, b| b}
+freq.reverse!
+freq.each{|word, freq| puts freq.to_s + " - " + word}