From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!stan Newsgroups: net.jokes Title: Re -- Rotatable Words Article-I.D.: floyd.1112 Posted: Fri Jan 21 14:52:29 1983 Received: Sat Jan 22 05:04:32 1983 Tom Anderson (fluke!vax1:toma) has an interesting idea. However, there is a better way of locating such words than the method he described. Create two sorted files: the original words, and the rotated words. Merge them, then use 'uniq -d' to select those that appear twice. I did this on our machine, and got the following list of 70 words. Since I first used a filter to remove upper-case letters, many of the words (such as Jura) are proper nouns. The left hand side is fully sorted; the right hand side is sorted only by first letter. aba non abe nor abo nob ah nu alp nyc ana nan ant nag ape ncr balk onyx bar one be or bee orr bin ova clerk pyrex crag pent crt peg cuba phon eng rat envy rail erg ret faber snore fur she gag tnt gel try gent trag gin tva gnat tang green terra greer terre ha un iraq vend irk vex iv vi jr we jura when Stan King phone: 201-386-7433 Bell Labs, Whippany, NJ Cornet: 8+232-7433 room 2A-111 uucp: floyd!stan