How do I pick a word at random from a list of words?

[Blair P. Houghton]

In article <19669 at adm.BRL.MIL> bjornand at idt.unit.no (Bjoern Andersen) writes:
>
>I need to pick a word from a list in a random sequence. How do I
>achieve that in a csh or sh script?
>
>-- Bjoern.

In the Unix archives at j.cc.purdue.edu, ( anonymous ftp to it, use
128.210.9.2 if necessary...) in the comp.unix.sources/volume2
directory, is a PD program called 'choose'.  Snarf it, compile it, and
try it.  It selects random lines from a file, but the least you can do
is rearrange its innards to select random words from a
whitespace-separated set of words...

				--Blair