Re: [FWP] Limnophilous (was: The Perl Golf Apocalypse Experience)

[Andy Bach <root@wiwb.uscourts.gov>]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Ilmari Karonen wrote:

>   limnophilous
>   overstudy
>   overstuff
>   overstunk
>   superstud
>   understudy
> 
> The fact that 5 out of the 6 contain the same sequence, "rstu", with only
> "limnophilous" (anyone with a big dic care to quote a definition?) having
> "mnop" seems quite curious.

http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/tropicos/most/Glossary/G629.html
limnophilous

thriving in ponds or stagnent water

limnophilus,-a,-um (adj. A).

     French - limnophile 
     German - *limnophil 
     Spanish - limnófilo

and from:
http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words3.html

OVERSTUFF, OVERSTUDY, SUPERSTUD, and UNDERSTUDY contain the alphabetical
sequence -rstu-. The only other four-letter alphabetical sequence found in
English is -mnop-, which is found in LIMNOPHILOUS, GYMNOPAEDES,
GYMNOPAEDIC, GYMNOPHIONA, GYMNOPHIONA, GYMNOPHTHALMATA, GYMNOPLAST,
PRUMNOPITYS, SEMNOPITHECUS, SOMNOPATHY, THAMNOPHILE, THAMNOPHILUS, and
THAMNOPHIS. If we allow spaces and hyphens there are also FILM NOIR and
STAR-STUDDED. Jim Cook says WEAPONMAKING and (WEAPONMAKER), which contain
-mnop- backwards, are probably the only words containing a four-letter
sequence that is exactly in reversed alphabetical order. HIJIKI (a type of
seaweed) is a 6-letter word consisting only of letters in the sequence H,
I, J, K. STRUV (an old past tense of STRIVE in the OED) consists only of
letters in the sequence R, S, T, U, V. 



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