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    From HenHanna@HenHanna@dev.null to rec.puzzles,sci.lang,alt.usage.english on Sun Jun 22 18:10:38 2025
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    On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 17:43:21 +0000, leflynn wrote:

    On Monday, October 18, 2021 at 1:06:19 PM UTC-4, leflynn wrote:
    Simple challenge to create a 26 word list where the starting and ending
    letters are the same, with one word for each letter of the alphabet.
    Your score is the total number of letters. If you skip a letter, your
    score for that letter is 7. Can you get under 100 without consulting a
    dictionary? Let's use the scrabble players' word list.
    L. Flynn
    Here are three lists. The first is made entirely of non-trivial
    Palindromes (Score of 99). The second improves on it by including non-palindrome words of two or more letters (Score of 90). And the third allows words of a single letter (Score of 84). One-letter words are not
    in the Scrabble dictionary. Note Collins Scrabble Words has rCLoorCY in it. AA 2 A
    BIB 5
    CIVIC 10 CHIC
    DAD 13
    EYE 16
    ------- 23 FIEF
    GIG 26
    HAH 29
    ------- 36 INTI I
    ------- 43
    KOOK 47
    LEVEL 52 LULL
    MM 54
    NUN 57
    OHO 60 O
    POP 63
    QAJAQ 68
    RADAR 73 ROAR
    SIS 76
    TAT 79
    ULU 82
    VAV 85
    WOW 88
    XEROX 93
    YAY 96
    ZZZ 99 90 84

    Ob. Puzzle. Similar list to the first but the goal is to find the
    longest palindrome words for each letter.

    ____________________________________ (How is this person doing these
    days?)



    Do we already have a list of Long or Longish Palindromic words (in
    English)?


    Rotator

    Repaper

    Deleveled

    Racecar

    Redivider

    Detartrated === (Past tense of detartrate)
    (to remove tartar, extremely rare
    and mostly used for its palindromic property).

    "Detartrated" is considered the longest palindromic English word by some sources, though itrCOs very uncommon in regular use.

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