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- From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: scrabble boredom
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.073532.27523@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 07:35:32 GMT
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
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- Looking at a scrabble board you see funny things... like
- the fact that "debugger" and "begrudge" are but rearrangements
- of each other.
-
- Trivia question: which set of letters has FIVE distinct words
- associated with it? Can any find MORE than one of these?
- I have 16 FOURS, and but one FIVE?
-
- --tom
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
-
- Ear, but earn and wear and tear
- Do not rhyme with here but ere.
-