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From: presley@mhuxj.UUCP (Joe Presley)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: abcde
Message-ID: <237@mhuxj.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 01:11:37 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 22 01:11:37 1985
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> From: nunes@utai.UUCP (Joe Nunes)
> Message-ID: <432@utai.UUCP>
> >What is the fewest number of regular English
> >words are needed to contain all the letters of the
> >alphabet in order?
> 	Here's one in 4.
> acknowledgements quadrophonic reflexivity jezebel
> ^^^^^^^^^^ ^  ^^ ^^  ^ ^^  ^    ^  ^ ^  ^ ^ ^ ^

You must have a peculiar sense of alphabetical order if you consider
the letters you've marked to be in order. 
-- 
Joe Presley (mhuxm!presley)