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From: osman@sprite.DEC (Eric Osman, dtn 283-7484)
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Subject: when does rot13 NOT produce garbage ?
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Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 14:23:19 EST
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I was curious to know what English words, when rot13'ed, would produce
other English words.  I asked my computer, using a fairly extensive
on-line dictionary.  I was rather disappointed at how few examples there
are.  I was hoping there might be enough so someone could concoct something
that "made sense" both rot13'ed and not rot13'ed !

Here are the pairs of words that are for the most part both English,
and are the rot13 versions of each other:

abjurer nowhere	   ah nu	       aha nun		   an na
ant nag		   arg net	       art neg		   avg nit
balk onyx	   bar one	       be or		   cher pure
crag pent	   envy rail	       flap sync	   fur she
gnat tang	   green terra	       her ure		   hern urea
irk vex

"abjurer nowhere" is the longest example.  "irk vex" is my favorite.

That word "irk" coincidentally enough cropped up in my favorite
anagram too, namely "irksome smokier".

p.s.	Are there other news files to which this entry would
	be worth posting ?