6 May
2016
6 May
'16
3:59 p.m.
rwg wrote:
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.
What's Scrabbologically wrong with purpura? (Except it being the name of Edward Teller's secretary at LLNL.)
Nothing's wrong with "purpura", which is in the Official Scrabble dictionary. It's the *pair* that you won't find in a game, since Chechen is a proper noun. I grant that it's not a very serious advantage, but hey... this is about fun, right?? -- Jim Gillogly