def check_word(self, word):
        word_list = word.split()
        words = len(word_list)
        correct_words = 0
        for word in word_list:
            stripped_word = ''.join(c for c in word if c.isalpha()).lower()
            if len(word)/2 > len(stripped_word):
                break
            if stripped_word in self.english_words:
                correct_words += 1
        if words > 0:
            this_score = correct_words/words
        else:
            this_score = 0
        return this_score