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  • From: "Gina Norman" <gina.norman AT nortelnetworks.com>
  • To: "'internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness
  • Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 12:32:41 -0500

Title: RE: [internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness

mmmm.... proterotype

Just like the sound of that one for some reason.

:)

-Gina

Gina Norman
Senior Manager, Global Web Governance
ginanorm AT nortelnetworks.com
919-905-4801 (ESN 355)
http://www.nortelnetworks.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Champeon [mailto:schampeo AT hesketh.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 12:29 PM
> To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness
>
>
> on Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:01:44PM -0500, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> > On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 11:08 AM, Dallas Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Anyone know what the longest word in the dictionary is
> that you can
> > > spell only using the top line of your keyboard -
> QWERTYUIOP - using
> > > only those letters. :) A 10-letter word is the best I can get.
> >
> > I can't get past ten either.
>
> Perl is your friend.
>
> perl -ne 'chomp;if(/^[qwertyuiop]+$/i) { printf("%02d %s\n",
> length($_), $_); }' < /usr/share/dict/words | sort
>
> 11 proprietory
> 11 proterotype
> 11 rupturewort
>
> Hey, you didn't specify which dictionary... :)
>
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  • RE: [internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness, Gina Norman, 11/12/2002

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