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

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