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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Fri, 26-Apr-85 07:48:00 EDT
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I am not always in tune with netiquette and how and why people use the net.
Do people who post puzzles do so in the spirit of a ice-breaker or are they
really looking for the best answer or better, are they looking for 
references.   I prefer the latter, but I am a stick in the mud sometimes.

For example here are some known answers to recent postings:

Longest one syllable word-
	Martin Gardner (all of whose books should be read and reread)
	in an uncollected column (about 6 years ago) mentioned the
	discovery SCHNAPSSED and BROUGHAMMED. (These are not in my WEB2
	but as I recall they were in Random House (?).)

Words in alphabetical order naturally-
	The long program given for this is far more complicated than
	the one-line egrep call in Kernighan & Pike (1984, p.104).
	They discovered, as Aho did years earlier while working on
	pattern matching, the word EGILOPS.  Actually they missed
	the below-the-line (WEB2) variant AEGILOPS.

Shortest word with all vowels-
	SEQUOIA (I dimly recall a foreign term with 6 letters ...)

Vowels in order-
	FACETIOUSLY and ABSTEMIOUSLY are well-known but there are about
	15 other examples that appeared in Word Ways:The Journal of
	Recreational Linguistics, an excellent source that settled
	these questions, and similar questions, years ago. 

1000 Lockers-
	This appeared in the first issue of the now defunct 4-Star Puzzler
	(an offshoot of the excellent Games magazine) and appeared
	in Honsberger's column years ago and is based on well-known
	excersize in Number Theory texts.

Shortest word list with letters in order-
	Do not recall the best known answer but is in Word Ways recently.

And now a challenge that was posted in Word Ways: Find the smallest
pangrammatic window in naturally occurring text, i.e. a contiguous set
of letters containing all 26 letters.  The current record is somewhat
less than 100 letters.