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What do the following words have in common? (Warning - Collins-only)

June 18, 2011 @ 4:17 p.m.

"ALSOONE", "ORNISES", "STOODEN", "CERESIN", "EMICANT", "ORRAMEN", "EMICATE", "PAIDLES", "RIBSTON", "LIVEDOS", "DIEDRES", "TONDINO", "BLEWART", "NATCHES", "MAYSTER", "TELOSES", "OLDENED", "GADSMEN", "APEDOMS", "BEENAHS", "ADUSTED", "SHONEEN", "HOLEYER", "TRIPSES", "BLEWITS", "ENDSHIP", "ORRAMAN", "LIMOSES", "MOTSERS", "TEUCHER", "ILIACUS", "SKIEYER", "SWEERED", "MULESED", "POHIRIS", "TEUCHAT", "CHIPSET", "COOSERS", "COOSENS", "BROOSES", "HOLESOM", "PAYSAGE", "GADSMAN", "GREESES", "KEASARS", "GREEKED", "COOSINS", "LEXISES", "FROSHES", "CAMESES", "TRIPSIS", "DUNSHES", "BREESES", "LIMOSIS", "ILKADAY", "WANKSTA", "MAGSMEN", "MULESES", "PUBISES", "KUDOSES", "GYRUSES", "ZOOTYPE", "MUGSHOT", "AMISSES", "NUNSHIP", "PSOASES", "BUNSENS", "WUDDING", "COKESES", "JAKESES", "HUNKSES", "PAYSLIP", "GYMSLIP", "HADEDAH", "MAGSMAN", "SIBSHIP", "STOSSES", "KECKSES", "RAGSTONE", "BOREALIS" ...

Answer:

  • These are all CSW words that for some reason Aerolith does not mark as CSW-only with the # (octothorpe!)
  • There are 2371 of these
  • I reran the database script on my computer after making some minor changes and now the words are marked correctly. I have no idea why there was an error. The error was in my dawg (directed acyclic word graph) findWord function, but it's magically not there anymore, so I don't know what caused it. One interesting thing is that all of these are made up of two OWL2 words, at least as far as I've seen.
  • I'll update the database later tonight on the server so it shows the #. This should be the only database error. The number of words in the CSW database is still the same as it should be, the length counts are correct, it's only this stupid symbol. Agh.

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