diff --git a/dot_zsh_aliases b/dot_zsh_aliases
index 4e51f4f..7eaf10b 100644
--- a/dot_zsh_aliases
+++ b/dot_zsh_aliases
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ alias hist='history'
 alias codestats='tokei'
 alias dups='file_dups'
 alias pairs='file_getpairs'
+alias filter_pairs="tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | \grep -o -E '\w{3,} \w{3,}' | \grep --invert-match --word-regexp --fixed-strings --file=\"\$HOME/stopwords.txt\" | \sed 's/s$//g' | \sed 's/ing$//g' | sort | uniq -c | sort --numeric-sort --reverse"
+alias sort_count="sort | uniq -c | sort --numeric-sort --reverse"
 alias words='file_getwords'
 alias fd="\fd"
 alias wiki='wikit'
diff --git a/dot_zsh_functions b/dot_zsh_functions
index 57f1e47..8d70c02 100644
--- a/dot_zsh_functions
+++ b/dot_zsh_functions
@@ -467,14 +467,14 @@ function dl_stopwords() {
 }
 function file_getwords() {
     dl_stopwords
-    \cat "$1" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | \grep -o -E '\w{3,}' | \grep --invert-match --word-regexp --fixed-strings --file="$HOME/stopwords.txt" | \sed 's/s$//g' | \sed 's/ing$//g' | sort | uniq -c | sort --numeric-sort --reverse
+    \cat "$1" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | \grep -o -E '\w{3,}' | \grep --invert-match --word-regexp --fixed-strings --file="$HOME/stopwords.txt" | \sed 's/s$//g' | \sed 's/ing$//g' | sort_count
 }
 function file_getpairs() {
     dl_stopwords
-    \cat "$1" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | \grep -o -E '\w{3,} \w{3,}' | \grep --invert-match --word-regexp --fixed-strings --file="$HOME/stopwords.txt" | \sed 's/s$//g' | \sed 's/ing$//g' | sort | uniq -c | sort --numeric-sort --reverse
+    \cat "$1" | filter_pairs
 }
 function file_dups() {
-    \cat "$1" | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
+    \cat "$1" | sort_count
 }
 function foreach_run() {
     find . -name "$1" -exec "$2" {} \;