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From: steve@siemens.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Word Islands
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 16:47:00 EDT
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>>Allow me to impose a distance metric on the words in the english language.
>>...
>
>How about "ivy."  The plural is also ivy.  Replacing the first letter
>[vowel] yields 'avy, evy, ovy, uvy and yvy,' none of which I recognize as
>words.  The second letter --> 'iay,iby,icy,idy,iey,ify,igy,ihy,iiy,ijy,iky,
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