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From: sahayman@watcgl.UUCP (Steve Hayman)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: More Interesting Words
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Date: Tue, 8-Nov-83 12:28:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  8 12:28:52 1983
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In case anyone didn't figure out my earlier submission, all of
the words listed had the property that their letters were in
reverse alphabetical order (plus, they were at least 5 letters long).
The longest forward-sorted words are ALMOST and BIOPSY.

The longest words with no letter occurring more than once are -
ambidextrous
bluestocking
exclusionary
incomputable
lexicography
loudspeaking
malnourished

(the words 'vodkathumbscrewingly' and 'pubvexingfjordschmaltzy'
 don't seem to be in /usr/dict/words)

More words begin with 's' than any other letter. The next most
common initial letter is 'c', of all things.

Hey, I think it's interesting...

Steve Hayman
watmath!watcgl!sahayman