An interesting challenge

Joshua Zeidner jjzeidner at gmail.com
Wed Apr 5 12:14:48 MST 2006


On 4/4/06, Robert N. Eaton <moth28 at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Joshua Zeitner wrote:
>
> oh btw-  if you are globbing all the dictionaries there will be multiple
> entries( english + british ) so if /usr/share/dict contains more than
> one dict file( which is standard  ), I believe your word count is wrong...
> jmz
>
> The dictionaries do make a difference.  I know of one more word not
> mentioned which does meet the criteria: dace.
>
> It's a type of small British pan fish.  Probably not common in geek
> lexicon.




 Im not sure if 'dace' counts, its a red herring. -jmz

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/red-herring.html



Bob Eaton
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