[Fictionary] New Word
Jim Moskowitz
jim at jimmosk.com
Tue Oct 13 20:11:27 EDT 2015
>Fun language trivia I was fiddling with earlier: very close to 10%
>of English words (at least by /usr/share/dict/words standards) can
>be spelled using only symbols from the periodic table, once. (That
>is, you could spell CoAl or COAl, but not HAlAl.)
>
>--Nick
How long before someone writes a novel using only Periodic Table symbols?
(Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_%28novel%29 )
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