From: Anand Rao <anandrao@iitbombay.org>
Date: 2008/11/13
Subject: [puzzleteasers] SOLUTION: four consecutive letters
To: puzzleteasers <puzzleteasers@yahoogroups.com>
Iftekhar Ansari: ABCDE- a better CD encoder is a CD ripper for Linux and UNIX-like operating systems, operated entirely from the command line
Arunabha Dasgupta, Ed Murphy, Deepti Patodia, Ajit Athle, Anil Sharma: UNDERSTUDY, OVERSTUFF
Jawahar Surti too understuffed and overstudied, or vice versa, and he also came up with:
Star-studded (if hyphenated words are allowed)
Sudipkumar Roy: UNDERSTUFFED, GYMNOPLAST
KT Rajagopalan: Would GYMNOPHOBIA be rite, as the long-lost Shreya would have asked?
I think UNDERSTUDY and OVERSTUFF would pass muster without a dispute being raised.
And finally, here's the masterpiece from Oscar Rojas:
Hi Anand,
You want to fill my brain not only with numbers but with letters too!
That's fine. It was entertaining!
With the aid of a powerful dictionary I found these words (some are variations from the same root)
cremnophobia
gymnopaedia
gymnophiona
gymnophobia
gymnophthalmidae
gymnopilus
gymnoplast
prumnopitys
somnopathy
somnoplasty
thamnophilidae
thamnophilus
thamnophis
overstudious
overstuff
overstuffed
understudied
understudies
understudy
Besides, there are some geographical names taken from other languages:
Hijkersmilde
is a town in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Midden-Drenthe, and lies about 13 km southwest of Assen.
Chelmno
is a town in northern Poland near the Vistula river with 20,000 inhabitants and the historical capital of Chelmno Land (Culmerland).
Karstula
is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Central Finland region.
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Oscar Rojas
Costa Rica
To: puzzleteasers@yahoogroups.com
From: anandrao@iitbombay.org
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:41:38 +0800
Subject: [puzzleteasers] four consecutive letters
Can you think of English words in which two consecutive letters of the alphabet appear consecutively?
No need to even think about it!
How about three consecutive letters?
As definite as Genghis Khan went to Afghanistan ...
How about four consecutive letters?
Now don't monkey around with semnopithecus, this is indeed quite simple
Have fun
Anand
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