Along a different line, for those who haven't seen it, this can't be beat. I can't imagine finding it without a computer, but I think someone did. Doc, note I dissent. A fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Reble" <djr@nk.ca> To: "math-fun" <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] Words
i in p in p ing o p ing co p ing comp ing comp ting comp e ting comple ting complecting
Some of those words are rare. "Oping" comes from "ope", a literary form of "open". "Comping" comes from "comp", a jazz term. (It has other, informal uses.) "Compting" comes from "compt", an archaic form of "count".
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I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications' incomprehensibleness.
Martin Gardner mentioned that in one of his columns. (See "The Oulipo", in _Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers_.) He attributes it to Dmitiri Borgmann, _Language on Vacation_.
-- Don Reble djr@nk.ca
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