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From: nunes@utcsri.UUCP (Joe Nunes)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: abcde
Message-ID: <1045@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 09:16:31 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 22 09:16:31 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)

It's amazing. I must have read the initial response a half dozen times
and I never noticed the "in order". Sorry about that. I am now
going to leave this newsgroup and hide in a cave in shame for the rest
of my years.