diff --git a/passphrase b/passphrase
index 4c70b23..83a0753 100755
--- a/passphrase
+++ b/passphrase
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ COUNT=1 # default to one group of passphrases
 WORDS=3 # default to three-word phrases
 
 DICT='/usr/share/dict/words' # standard location of the words file
+DICT='/home/nicholas/passphrase/testdict' # a test dictionary
 CLEANDICT="$(mktemp)" # create a temp file to store our sanitized dictionary
 
 PASSPHRASE=`grep "^[a-z]\{3,8\}$" $DICT` # sanitize the dictionary
@@ -68,7 +69,20 @@ for (( y = 1; y <= $COUNT; y++ )); do # give us COUNT groups of passwords
     for (( z = 1; z <= $WORDS; z++ )); do # give us WORDS words words w...ords
 
       THERAND=$(( ((RANDOM<<15)|RANDOM) % DICTCOUNT )) # generate a pseudorandom number beteween 1 and the word count
-      printf `sed -n ''"$THERAND"' p' < $CLEANDICT`"$SPACE" # pull line number THERAND from our sanitized dictionary
+
+      THEWORD=`sed -n ''"$THERAND"' p' < $CLEANDICT`
+      
+      THEWORDSUM=`echo $THEWORD | cksum`
+
+      if [ "$THEWORDSUM" = "2364352366 7" ] || [ "$THEWORDSUM" = "1786501751 7" ] || [ "$THEWORDSUM" = "3985821159 5" ] || [ "$THEWORDSUM" = "3381753483 6" ]; then
+  
+        (( z-- ))
+
+      else
+
+        printf "$THEWORD "
+
+      fi
 
     done
     echo ''