Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site uwvax.ARPA
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!uwvax!stock
From: stock@uwvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Words in Alphabetical Order
Message-ID: <961@uwvax.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 12:44:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: uwvax.961
Posted: Thu Jun 30 12:44:39 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jul-83 11:10:12 EDT
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
Lines: 16

Here are twenty-one six-letter words each of which has all its
letters in alphabetical order:

accent accept access accost adders almost begins
bellow billow biopsy bloops chills chilly chimps
choosy choppy effort floors floppy glossy knotty

Almost all these words were found by using egrep on /usr/dict/words.
The regular expression that was used is left as an exercise for the
interested reader.  No longer such words were found by this method.

			-- daniel stock
			   Computer Sciences
			   University of Wisconsin - Madison
			   stock@uwisc
			   ...!seismo!uwvax!stock