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- From: elnitsky@math.lsa.umich.edu (Serge Elnitsky)
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- Subject: List of words
- Date: 26 Dec 1992 20:12:35 GMT
- Organization: University of Michigan, Mathematics Department, Ann Arbor
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- I don't think I've posted this here before... If I have, who
- cares. It's original, at any rate.
-
- THE HIT LIST
-
- All of the 208 words on the list below possess a certain
- very specific property that is shared by fewer than 300 English
- words altogether. Find it. (Once you have it, you'll know
- without a doubt that it's correct.)
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- able, adder, addle, age, aid, ail, ale, allow, ally, ample,
- and, ash, at, ate, cab, camp, can, car, care, cent, cold, cone,
- coop, cope, core, corn, crap, cream, crew, ear, eat, elect, elf,
- end, entry, even, ever, exist, extant, hack, hag, hall, hallow,
- halt, ham, hard, hare, harp, hatter, have, he, hear, hell, hip,
- hit, hoe, hone, hook, hoot, hop, horn, hot, hovel, how, hun,
- hunt, hut, idle, ilk, ill, imply, in, ink, inner, ire, it, kid,
- kill, kin, kipper, kit, lab, lack, lag, lap, lash, late, laughter,
- lay, led, lender, lice, lick, light, lime, lip, lit, liver,
- lob, log, lot, low, lumber, lump, mall, mart, mash, melt, mile,
- mite, mock, mother, mug, nag, nail, nap, nip, not, now, oak,
- oar, often, oil, old, on, ore, our, pace, pan, par, pare, park,
- parse, pat, patter, pawn, pay, peak, pear, peck, pend, pew,
- pike, pill, pin, pine, pit, platter, poke, pool, pore, port,
- pot, pout, pray, pry, punk, putter, tab, table, tack, tag,
- take, tale, talk, tall, tar, teak, team, tern, tick, tiff,
- till, tilt, tint, tone, tool, top, tout, tow, train, trait,
- trap, tray, tress, trident, trip, tripe, truck, trumpet, tub,
- tumble, upper, urge, wallow, wan, warm, way, wear, weep, well,
- wig, wine, wing, will, wipe, witch, word
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- Serge Elnitsky, Math Dept., U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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