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