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zinfandel!mark    Jun 29 17:42:00 1983

Re: longest words whose letters are in order.
    More new results.

Well, I missed a few 6-letter words earlier, but who cares about them
with seven letter words around.

Variation:
    How about the longest words whose letters are in reverse order?
    I found 5 7-letter ones: 2 had repeated letters and one of the
    strictly monotonic ones was a name, leaving 2 strictly monotonic
    7-letter non-name words. Thanks to Berry Kercheval for this suggestion.

    Here they are, ROT13 (I should have done this
    to my previous submissions -- sorry, I'm a slow thinker).

    Words with their letters in reverse alphabetic order (7 letters):
	fcbatrq
	Gfbarpn
	jebatrq

    Non-strictly decreasing order (7 letters):
	fcvssrq
	gebbyvr

Mark Wittenberg
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