http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008772.html
"Paxed, in a comment on the efflorescence of zombies thread, pointed out that terra is green when transformed by Rot13. This intrigued me; I wondered what other such pairs there could be. So I cobbled together a quick Ruby script to hunt for such pairs, and pointed it at my system’s /usr/share/dict/words file. The resulting file ran to over 150 lines, with some duplication, but consisted mostly of what I call “bullshit Scrabble words” — the sort of words that Scrabble players and Gene Wolfe use all the time, but which rarely show up in real conversations: yn, avo, sneb, qubba, and the like. But there were a few pairs of real, everyday words: * terra ⇔ green * nun ⇔ aha * nag ⇔ ant * oho ⇔ bub * one ⇔ bar * onyx ⇔ balk * ova ⇔ bin * pent ⇔ crag * rail ⇔ envy * sync ⇔ flap" There's some really good ones in the rest of the post... _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
