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- From: kanad@colorado.eecs.umich.edu (Kanad Chakraborty)
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- Subject: Re: List of words
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.203757.11295@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 20:37:57 GMT
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- In article <1hiebjINN5ld@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu> elnitsky@math.lsa.umich.edu (Serge Elnitsky) writes:
- > 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.)
- >
- >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
- >
- >----------------------------------------------------------------
- >Serge Elnitsky, Math Dept., U. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
-
- If "erge" means anything, anything word with the above property is
- erge. :) :) :) :)
-
- Kanad
-