osman@sprite.DEC (Eric Osman, dtn 283-7484) (02/25/85)
I was curious to know what English words, when rot13'ed, would produce other English words. I asked my computer, using a fairly extensive on-line dictionary. I was rather disappointed at how few examples there are. I was hoping there might be enough so someone could concoct something that "made sense" both rot13'ed and not rot13'ed ! Here are the pairs of words that are for the most part both English, and are the rot13 versions of each other: abjurer nowhere ah nu aha nun an na ant nag arg net art neg avg nit balk onyx bar one be or cher pure crag pent envy rail flap sync fur she gnat tang green terra her ure hern urea irk vex "abjurer nowhere" is the longest example. "irk vex" is my favorite. That word "irk" coincidentally enough cropped up in my favorite anagram too, namely "irksome smokier". p.s. Are there other news files to which this entry would be worth posting ?
hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) (02/26/85)
gnat tang *Also palindromic! --henry schaffer nc state univ
colonel@gloria.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (03/03/85)
Another well-known 7-letter rot is primero-sulphur. Of course, that's a rot3, not a rot13. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...decvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel