Re: [FWP] nuts is stun spelled backwards

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 06:45:19PM -0500, David L. Nicol wrote:
> Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 01:49:35PM +0300, Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> > >
> > >   perl -nle'$h{$r=reverse}?print"$_ $r":$h{$_}++'  /usr/dict/words
> > 
> > Sneaky of you to swap the order of the words so it looks like the output is
> > sorted properly.  But that puts the list in alphabetical order by the
> > second word, not the first word.
> > 
> Peter's spec does not say anything about the ordering of the words
> w/in the pair.  I believe Ilmari's putt reaches the hole.

I believe you're splitting hairs.  What's the point of sorting
alphabetically by the word that comes second alphabetically?

Ronald

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