Comments on: Four Letter Words http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2009/11/05/four-letter-words/ Daily posts of Excel tips…and other stuff Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mpemba http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2009/11/05/four-letter-words/#comment-41998 Mpemba Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:54:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=3178#comment-41998 <p>as dermotb said - the one thing this little game taught me is that the spell checker is definitely NOT a good indicator of what is and is not a valid word. </p> <p>- It includes several (common) acronyms that are definitely not words. </p> <p>- It Bowdlerises the language (You can say -uck but not -unt for instance). </p> <p>- It includes modern jargon-words yet excludes many not-yet-obscure older ones.</p> <p>That said: It was fun playing with it</p> <p>M</p> as dermotb said – the one thing this little game taught me is that the spell checker is definitely NOT a good indicator of what is and is not a valid word.

- It includes several (common) acronyms that are definitely not words.

- It Bowdlerises the language (You can say -uck but not -unt for instance).

- It includes modern jargon-words yet excludes many not-yet-obscure older ones.

That said: It was fun playing with it

M

]]> By: Andy Cotgreave http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2009/11/05/four-letter-words/#comment-41996 Andy Cotgreave Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:42:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=3178#comment-41996 <p>@Jeff<br> -uagh -ut -oud</p> @Jeff
-uagh -ut -oud

]]> By: dermotb http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2009/11/05/four-letter-words/#comment-41994 dermotb Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:59:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=3178#comment-41994 <p>Based on the Scrabble wordlist (which I trust more than the spell checker, which probably doesn't try to include every obscure word), ILL is the winner</p> <p>ILL17<br> INS16<br> ATS16<br> AYS16<br> APS15<br> OWS15<br> ITS14<br> AGS14<br> EES14<br> AIL13<br> EAR13<br> ENT13<br> ETS13<br> INE13<br> OBS13<br> ORE13<br> OTS13<br> AWS13</p> Based on the Scrabble wordlist (which I trust more than the spell checker, which probably doesn’t try to include every obscure word), ILL is the winner

ILL17
INS16
ATS16
AYS16
APS15
OWS15
ITS14
AGS14
EES14
AIL13
EAR13
ENT13
ETS13
INE13
OBS13
ORE13
OTS13
AWS13

]]> By: Jeff Weir http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2009/11/05/four-letter-words/#comment-41993 Jeff Weir Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:46:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=3178#comment-41993 <p>-arn -ood -ost, -ude. -ell, -ain -hat -his -ode -uns -eal -low. -ant -ait -ery -ong. </p> <p>-eff -eir.</p> -arn -ood -ost, -ude. -ell, -ain -hat -his -ode -uns -eal -low. -ant -ait -ery -ong.

-eff -eir.

]]> By: Andy Cotgreave http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2009/11/05/four-letter-words/#comment-41991 Andy Cotgreave Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:06:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=3178#comment-41991 <p>:-)<br> Utterly fantastic. </p> <p>I owe you some virtual beer. Or if you're gonna be at the next UK Excel Conference, UK Tableau User Group, or US Tableau User Conference, or every in Oxford, England, I will buy you a real one, or two. </p> <p>The problem now is, what word-nerd game are my wife and I going to play in car journeys next? Four-letter suffixes...? I think not!</p> :-)
Utterly fantastic.

I owe you some virtual beer. Or if you’re gonna be at the next UK Excel Conference, UK Tableau User Group, or US Tableau User Conference, or every in Oxford, England, I will buy you a real one, or two.

The problem now is, what word-nerd game are my wife and I going to play in car journeys next? Four-letter suffixes…? I think not!

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