15 Apr
2016
15 Apr
'16
12:42 p.m.
Some website I looked at claimed that nowhere <—> abjurer was the unique longest such rot13 pair. But it wasn't clear which wordlist this referred to, or whether capitalized or hyphenated word counted. So, possibly the record of 7 letters can be embiggened. —Dan
On Apr 15, 2016, at 11:11 AM, Fred Lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:
On 4/15/16, Jim Gillogly <scryer@gmail.com <mailto:scryer@gmail.com>> 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