anagrams

James Youngman jay at gnu.org
Sat Oct 4 21:26:45 CEST 2008


On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Brian Cartwright
<briancartwright2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> However, I think there's a problem with the dictionary used for the anagram
> routine -- try it and you'll see.  It generates an awful lot of non-words
> like garn and ce

They are both words; while the latter is simply a symbol for a
chemical element (or an acronym), the former is a real word; it means
"yarn".  There's also a colloquialism of the same spelling meaning "go
on".

James.


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