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

[Tom Rathborne <tomr@aceldama.com>]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 04:36:50PM +0300, Ilmari Karonen wrote:
>   perl -ne '$"=""; print if /#@{[map+("|",a..z)[0,$_..$_+3], 1..23]}/oi;'
>       /usr/dict/word.lst
> 
> Removing the /o saves a stroke, but makes it unbearably slow.  The /i may
> also be omitted if you use an all-lowercase word list.  Of course the word
> list is assumed not to contain any # characters.. 
> 
> > BTW, no words that fit that pattern are in the standard Linux
> > /usr/dict/words -- I had to use a different word list that I found
> > elsewhere.  But reasonably common words that fit do exist.
> 
> Ignoring inflected forms, I find the following in YAWL:
> 
>   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.

OED says:
    limnophilous (lIm'nofIl&schwa.s), a. [f. Gr.
    lambda-iota-mu-nu-eta- marsh, pool +
    phi-iota-lambda--omicron-sigma- loving + -OUS.   Cf. Fr.
    limnophile.] Fond of or living in marshes or pools, as certain
    molluscs, etc.  1855 in MAYNE Expos. Lex. 

Here's another one from the OED:

    cremnophobia (kremn&schwa.U'f&schwa.UbI&schwa.). Path. [mod.L., f.
    Gr.  kappa-rho-eta-mu-nu-omicron-sigma- overhanging cliff: see
    -PHOBIA.] A morbid dread of precipices or steep places. 
      1903 in DORLAND Med. Dict. (ed. 3). 1908 G. B. SHAW Sanity of
    Art 97 [Nordau] is started off by the termination `phobia' with a
    string of Agoraphobia.., Belenophobia, Cremnophobia.

Tom

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