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It's amazing for how useful IPA is (at least at providing an reasonable fidelity intermediate form between other, more-accurate representations) how few FOSS projects I've seen use it.

Really what I'm saying is I'd like to see someone build an automated pun-discovery tool.

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This repo[1] contains IPA dictionaries for 17 languages, including English, Spanish, and Chinese in JSON/CSV/XML/plain text format.

If you really want to find puns programmatically, the releases section[2] has a ready-made package with homonyms in all the languages, including English. It should be trivial to make an online service that searches through this file for matches on particular words.

[1] https://github.com/open-dict-data/ipa-dict [2] https://github.com/open-dict-data/ipa-dict/releases

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