If naked palindromes are of no interest but only words starting with b, then:
Goodbye 143bed Welcome 200bag On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Jose Mario Quintana > <[email protected]> wrote: > > By the way, both ee and oo are playable according to the Official > Scrabble > > Players Dictionary and Official Scrabble Words International; but, > neither > > ee nor oo is playable in the US, Canada, Israel, and Thailand Thailand > > under the alternative TWL dictionary [0]. > > > > [0] Appendix:Official English Scrabble 2-letter words > > > > > https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Official_English_Scrabble_2-letter_words > > My post which introduced 83boo was using words starting with b (and > prepending an arbitrary one or two digit number on each of them). > > Specifically, on a mac: > bwords=: (#~ 'b' = {.@>) <@tolower;._2 fread '/usr/share/dict/words' > bbases=: 1+i.99 > nums=: __&".@> bnums=:(":&.>bbases),&.>/bwords > > That truncating the number and b leaves a palindrome was just a > coincidence. > > Also, I expect that 'boo' would be legal in Official Scrabble even in the > US. > > Or am I wrong about that? > > Thanks, > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
