6 May
2016
6 May
'16
11:58 a.m.
On 2016-04-15 09:25, Jim Gillogly wrote:
Keith F. Lynch writes:
The longest words that remain words after being rot13'd are Chechen <-> Purpura.
Checking my unabridged, I see another cromulent pair at 7: nowhere <-> abjurer
They also have the advantage of being usable for Scrabble.
Decades ago, using the 300000+ wordlist unabrd.dic [lib,doc?] residing (illicitly?) at Stanford AI, Robert Maas ran a search for pairs of words that determined each other under simple substitution (no fixed letters, i.e. no 1-cycles). Two that I remember were candlestand <-> whipmanship isoseismical <-> tumultuation --rwg What's Scrabbologically wrong with purpura? (Except it being the name of Edward Teller's secretary at LLNL.)