Would it be possible for commands to ignore the word 'the' . At the moment, if the player inputs ' Boil egg' then that's fine. If he/she puts ' boil the egg' then we get ' I don't see that (the egg). I realise that the prog allows the first 3 letters of a word to be recognised . Is the reason that 'them, Thews, thespian etc would be deleted. I realise also that you can add the to the command, but in a multi option command to cover all possible inputs, this doubles the effort. Perhaps also the same for 'a'.

If you use verbs then this already happens. If you have an "egg" object, add a verb "boil" to it, and it will handle the correct variations. I just did a quick test:

> boil egg
ok

> boil the egg
ok

I was trying to operate a set of specs and found that options like take off and put on spectacles were getting confused with the built in take and drop object command. Entering it as a command seemed to cure this.