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From: das@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: collectible words
Message-ID: <4826@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 16-Apr-85 01:02:22 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 16 01:02:22 1985
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Summary: 

Here's some help for the reverse word list:

*The English Word Speculum*, compiled by J.L. Dolby and H.L. Resnikoff,
  Lockheed Missles and Space Company, Sunnyvale, CA, 1964.  (Library of
  Congress Catalog Number 64-8921)

This lists 73,582 words in several different orders:
  Volume I:   The Random Word List
  Volume II:  The Forward Word List
  Volume III: The Reverse Word List  (This is what you want, although there
	are no etymologies, just the list of words.  The words are grouped
	by number of syllables (deduced from the placement of vowels, so it's
	not perfect), so it's (a small bit of) fun to open to a random spot
	and start reading aloud -- most contiguous words have the same stress
	pattern and usually rhyme, since they're alphabetized right-to-left.)
  Volume IV:  The Double-Standard Word List  (combination of Forward and
	Reverse on a subset of the words -- those which appear in TWO standard
	sources)
  Volume V:   The Reverse Part-of-Speech Word List  (like Volume III, except
	the major grouping is by part of speech (no, I don't know how they
	handle words that fit in more than one class))

-- David Smallberg, das@ucla-cs.ARPA, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das