rwg ​wrote:

On 2016-04-15 09:25, Jim Gillogly wrote:

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Keith F. Lynch writes:

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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.

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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