[oak perl] Regular Expressions
George Woolley
george at metaart.org
Thu Mar 11 19:28:21 CST 2004
Ah, yes Schwartz, a name beloved to many of us.
And then, according to a dictionary on my system, there's:
McBride
McClain
McClellan
McClure
McCluskey
McCracken
McGrath
McGraw
McGregor
McKnight
McPherson
Schlesinger
Schlitz
Schloss
Schmidt
Schmitt
Schnabel
Schneider
Schroeder
Schroedinger
Schwab
Schweitzer
Oh, my.
On the other hand, we have:
Jones
King
Lewis
Lyman
Woolley
etc.
Help!
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Belden: Are people's names included or excluded?
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George
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On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:58 pm, B.E.G. wrote:
> Tony asks:
> > Does anyone know of a word that starts with four consonants?
>
> Turn to Yiddish and find "schmaltz". I seem to recall someone with
> the name "Schwartz", if you'll allow proper names. Probably not here,
> and I doubt Scrabble recognizes any eponymous words from that name,
> eg "schwartzian transform".
>
> Elijah
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> five is harder to find
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