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- From: meyer@sfi.santafe.edu (Thomas P. Meyer)
- Subject: Re: scrabble boredom
- Message-ID: <+m+qf=l@SantaFe.edu>
- Date: Fri, 06 Nov 92 16:31:52 GMT
- Organization: Santa Fe Institute
- References: <1992Nov5.073532.27523@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Nov5.164639.3051@Princeton.EDU>
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- The dictionary search missed the set I came up with---
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- retains
- retinas (probably an acceptable spelling, esp. by Scrabble players :) )
- stainer
- restain
- nastier
- ratines
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- Pretty boring words, but what do you expect from the three commonest vowels
- and the four commonest consonants?
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- thomas
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