Word Ways, February 1st, 2006
I. Transposals of ETAOIN SHRDLU
Etaoin shrdlu, the twelve most used English letters in order by an old count, is an entry in Webster's 3rd (W3) as the Linotype not-to-be-printed marker slug. When I noticed that malnourished misses by one letter (t) being a transposal of it I was tantalised and sought a full transposal. I found but one, outlandisher, an obsolete word for foreigner (OED) already noted by Darryl Francis in the February '73 Kickshaws (WW73-43). I also worked up two polyanagrams of etaoin shrdlu 'defining' it from two different angles, linguistic meaning (1, from up/dn p.17) and...
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