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- From: al037@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dave Polewka)
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- Subject: Re: Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire -- anagrams
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 04:49:38 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- elkies@ramanujan.harvard.edu (Noam Elkies) says:
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- >Nice, but I thought "Voltaire" was itself an anagram of his actual
- >last name, "Arouet l.j." (l.j. = Jr., and using the old convention
- >that i=j and u=v in anagrams). Did he ever call himself "Francois
- >Marie Arouet Voltaire"?
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- My Webster's says:
- Voltaire, de (de vol-tar'), Francois Marie Arouet
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- but, I saw it first sans "de" in someone's .sig--Tim Starr, I think.
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- >While I'm at it, are use producing these lists of anagrams by hand
- >from scratch, or culling them from some kind of anagram program?
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- I'm a Cray 2 Supercomputer. Buzz off.
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