Index: graphspell-js/str_transform.js
==================================================================
--- graphspell-js/str_transform.js
+++ graphspell-js/str_transform.js
@@ -5,10 +5,18 @@
 
 
 // Note: 48 is the ASCII code for "0"
 
 var str_transform = {
+
+    getNgrams: function (sWord, n=2) {
+        let lNgrams = [];
+        for (let i=0;  i <= sWord.length - n;  i++) {
+            lNgrams.push(sWord.slice(i, i+n));
+        }
+        return lNgrams;
+    },
 
     longestCommonSubstring: function (string1, string2) {
         // https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Algorithm_Implementation/Strings/Longest_common_substring
         // untested
 

Index: graphspell/str_transform.py
==================================================================
--- graphspell/str_transform.py
+++ graphspell/str_transform.py
@@ -1,12 +1,17 @@
-#!python3
-
 """
 Operations on strings:
 - calculate distance between two strings
 - transform strings with transformation codes
 """
+
+#### Ngrams
+
+def getNgrams (sWord, n=2):
+    "return a list of Ngrams strings"
+    return [ sWord[i:i+n]  for i in range(len(sWord)-n+1) ]
+
 
 
 #### DISTANCE CALCULATIONS
 
 def longestCommonSubstring (s1, s2):