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- From: rabino@eng.umd.edu (Michael Rabinovitz)
- Subject: Re: List of words
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.012628.1149@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 01:26:28 GMT
- Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <1hiebjINN5ld@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>
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- In article <1hiebjINN5ld@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu> elnitsky@math.lsa.umich.edu (Serge Elnitsky) writes:
- > I don't think I've posted this here before... If I have, who
- >cares. It's original, at any rate.
- >
- >THE HIT LIST
- >
- > All of the 208 words on the list below possess a certain
- >very specific property that is shared by fewer than 300 English
- >words altogether. Find it. (Once you have it, you'll know
- >without a doubt that it's correct.)
- >
- The property all the words have is that they all form new words by
- prefixing each one with the letter "s."
-
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- Mike Rabinovitz
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